Flat Rock family escapes house fire after smoke detector sounds
A mother, her fiance and two young girls ran down a smoke-filled staircase. Firefighters said the kitchen fire was not her fault.
A Flat Rock family got out of their burning two-story home early Sunday evening because a smoke detector went off in time.
Misty Oddo said she, her fiance, Jon Guhn, and her two daughters, ages 4 and 18 months, were upstairs watching a basketball game and playing when the alarm sounded and smoke started coming up the stairs. Her 6-year-old son was with his father. The adults grabbed the girls and ran down into a wall of black smoke and out of the house.
The fire started in the kitchen. Oddo said she worried she had left something on, but firefighters told her nothing she did caused it. The family lost almost everything, including their cat. Some of her late mother’s belongings downstairs survived. She said she was simply thankful her children were safe and no one else was hurt.
The U.S. Fire Administration recommends a working smoke alarm on every level of a home and in each bedroom, tested monthly. More in Local News.