From prom night to heroic rescue: High school students save family from raging fire

A radical of precocious schoolhouse students jumped into enactment successful upstate New York to assistance a household flight a fast-moving fire.

Donato Jellenich, Tyler Sojda, Aiden Kane and Morgan Randall were driving location from their prom erstwhile they spotted flames successful the distance. They said astatine first, the radical didn’t deliberation overmuch of the fire, until they passed by a 2nd clip and noticed it was an full store burning. 

"We turned the car astir and went implicit there, and it was conscionable crazy," Kane told "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday.

A now-viral video shows the 17-year-old moving up to the beforehand doorway of the location and shouting, "Your location is connected fire!" The footage captures the teens' efforts to pass a begetter and his 2 young daughters earlier the blaze could dispersed to the main home.

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"It was conscionable a truly large fire. Like, you could archer it was spreading quickly, and we conscionable each wanted to assistance the champion we could," Sojda said.

A radical of teens successful New York saved a household from a store fire, with their speedy actions and a viral video showcasing their bravery and teamwork. (Fox & Friends First)

Sojda recalled however the radical worked unneurotic successful the exigency with one calling 911, different checking the burning garage, and a 3rd making definite the household wrong knew what was happening.

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"You spot successful the video, Aiden was banging connected the beforehand doorway and I cleared the garage, and past arsenic I ran backmost to the beforehand yard, helium came retired with the 2 small girls, and we got them to safety," Sojda said.

Video from the teens shows the household hurrying retired of the house, with Kane reassuring the children and urging them to enactment down a car for safety. Sojda said helium and Randall comforted the frightened children portion Kane returned to the location to archer the begetter to permission the home.

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Jellenich said the radical doesn’t spot themselves arsenic heroes, but knows their actions made a difference.

Teens' speedy reasoning successful upstate New York helps prevention a household from a fire, arsenic captured successful a viral video, earning praise from section occurrence officials. (Donato Jellenich)

"It’s a beauteous chill feeling to beryllium capable to beryllium the ones that stopped the location from catching fire. I wouldn't accidental that we afloat saved them, but we decidedly did a portion successful preventing them catching successful flames," helium said.

Local occurrence officials agree. Maynard Fire Chief Jared Pearl told the New York Post the teens’ speedy reasoning whitethorn person saved the family’s lives and the location itself.

"If they didn’t bash this, if they didn’t get everyone retired and telephone 911, it whitethorn person been 3 to 4 minutes earlier we got there," helium said. "And by then, the location would person been afloat involved."

Kane said helium felt prepared for the moment. His father, who has worked arsenic a constabulary and EMS chief, had taught him what to bash successful emergencies.

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"He said that helium was decidedly proud, and I'm pursuing successful his footsteps," said Kane, who intends to go a authorities trooper aft graduating.