9-year-old Lancaster County boy alerts sleeping family to house fire

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'I don't think I'm a hero. I just think I'm a 9-year-old little kid,' Michael Neal says.

A young boy in Lancaster County put his fire safety lessons into action this week.He alerted his family to the overnight fire that was quickly spreading from a cottage to their rented farmhouse.When fire tore through the home early Tuesday morning in East Hempfield Township, the family was asleep.The sound of a smoke alarm awakened one of them: 9-year-old Michael Neal.

The family is now staying in two rooms at the Heritage Hotel, courtesy of Joey Baker, the emergency recovery coordinator with Paul Davis Restoration 'I feel like I'm just on vacation, but also, I don't think about it. I just feel like I'm on vacation at the beach,' Neal said.Powers, though, is feeling the stress. She's using the hotel washing machines to clean some salvaged clothing that smells like smoke and trying to figure out the next step.

 

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