Trapped 2-year-old dropped from second-floor window to escape fire
The Derry, New Hampshire home had no functioning smoke detectors, according to fire officials.
A toddler was dropped from a second-floor window from one family member to others below when a fire broke out in a New Hampshire duplex. The parents of the child then leapt from the window themselves.The Derry Fire Department was called to 6 Morningside Drive around 5 a.m. Monday in response to a 911 call for smoke. Authorities saw “heavy smoke coming from the first and second floors” when they arrived, and immediately called for another ambulance, the department said on Facebook.
Initially, firefighters believed it was just the mother and child who were forced to escape from a bedroom window, but determined afterward that the father of the child had to jump too, according to Fire Chief Mike Gagnon.
“The first floor was completely consumed by fire,” Gagnon told Boston.com. The home didn’t have any functioning smoke detectors.
What saved the family was that they were sleeping with the bedroom door closed, which slowed down the effects of smoke inhalation. “If they had working smoke detectors, they could’ve been alerted to the fire at the early stages,” Gagnon said.
Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control on the first floor and it was put out, the post said. Gagnon said the first floor of that side of the duplex was “heavily damaged.”
The mother, father, and child were all brought to the hospital. The child suffered some smoke-related issues while the mother was injured during the escape. Two adults were able to make it out of the basement while two others were able to get outside from the home on the right side.
The Red Cross is helping the residents – five on the more heavily damaged side and two on the other – who have been displaced, firefighters said.
Authorities are still working to determine a cause of the blaze.
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