An 8-year-old New York boy is being hailed as a hero after saving 6 people from a mobile home fire, dying as he tried to save his grandfather.
East Rochester’s Tyler Doohan convinced his mother to let him spend the night with his grandfather when the fire broke out after 4 am.There were 9 people total in the trailer, and Tyler was able to wake up and lead 6 family members out of the fire, including a pair of 4- and 6-year-old children.
Once outside the trailer, family members say Tyler realized his grandfather had not made it out, and he went back inside to save him. Firefighters responded but Tyler and his grandfather were both found dead inside the trailer, along with the boy’s uncle.
“It makes me really proud, it really does. But I just want him back," said Tyler’s mother, Crystal Vrooman.
"All I could think about is how he couldn't breathe," she added. "I'm just so grateful that he went with people that he loved … He didn't go alone."
The 6 surviving family members were transported to a local hospital.
"The roof had collapsed on the front half of the trailer and one of the individuals was found there," Penfield Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer said to the Democrat and Chronicle. "In the rear, there was a bedroom and the other deceased male was found in a bed. The child was a few feet way."
"He saved those other six people," he said.
Tyler’s actions have inspired the local community, and the interim superintendent of the fourth grader’s school district said the boy “bravely and selflessly” gave his own life.
“I just got an email from one of our staff members, who when they heard Tyler had gone back in to help his grandfather get out of the burning building, they were not surprised at all,” Richard Stutzman told WHEC Rochester.
“That's the type of young man he was, and in my heart and the heart of East Rochester, he's a true hero.”
on a brighter note..................
the boy's selflessness assures him of a far better rebirth.........
no one was ever ''born'' and no one ever ''died''
all physical forms are illusions and are ''empty'' of a independent existence
East Rochester’s Tyler Doohan convinced his mother to let him spend the night with his grandfather when the fire broke out after 4 am.There were 9 people total in the trailer, and Tyler was able to wake up and lead 6 family members out of the fire, including a pair of 4- and 6-year-old children.
Once outside the trailer, family members say Tyler realized his grandfather had not made it out, and he went back inside to save him. Firefighters responded but Tyler and his grandfather were both found dead inside the trailer, along with the boy’s uncle.
“It makes me really proud, it really does. But I just want him back," said Tyler’s mother, Crystal Vrooman.
"All I could think about is how he couldn't breathe," she added. "I'm just so grateful that he went with people that he loved … He didn't go alone."
The 6 surviving family members were transported to a local hospital.
"The roof had collapsed on the front half of the trailer and one of the individuals was found there," Penfield Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer said to the Democrat and Chronicle. "In the rear, there was a bedroom and the other deceased male was found in a bed. The child was a few feet way."
"He saved those other six people," he said.
Tyler’s actions have inspired the local community, and the interim superintendent of the fourth grader’s school district said the boy “bravely and selflessly” gave his own life.
“I just got an email from one of our staff members, who when they heard Tyler had gone back in to help his grandfather get out of the burning building, they were not surprised at all,” Richard Stutzman told WHEC Rochester.
“That's the type of young man he was, and in my heart and the heart of East Rochester, he's a true hero.”
on a brighter note..................
the boy's selflessness assures him of a far better rebirth.........
no one was ever ''born'' and no one ever ''died''
all physical forms are illusions and are ''empty'' of a independent existence
