Six-year-old girl saves her mom and two younger siblings from house fire

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Six-year-old Olivia Patterson was playing in a neighbor’s yard when she saw that the roof of her house was on fire.

Without hesitating, she ran into her house, where her mom was downstairs napping on the couch with her one-year-old brother and two-year-old sister.

The mom, Laura Patterson, told the BBC,

I ended up waking up to Olivia bursting through the door shouting ‘fire, fire, mummy wake up, get the babies’.

Thanks to Olivia’s quick action, the mom was able to safely get all three children out of the house before the fire moved from the roof into the rest of the home.

Laura went on to say of her brave 6-year-old,

I was really shocked, I couldn’t believe that she had run in. My neighbour told me they tried to stop her, but [Olivia] knew that we were in there.

Unfortunately, the home was destroyed by the fire. The cause of the fire has not been confirmed, but it appears to have started in a neighbor’s home and jumped to the Patterson’s roof.

Olivia told reporters,