Allison Escobar Gallo was awoken by the smell of smoke at her family’s Virginia home on March 7
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- A fire broke out in the basement of a family’s Virginia home early morning on Saturday, March 7
- Allison Escobar Gallo alerted her parents after the smell of smoke woke her up
- “Instead of panicking, I was just focused on waking everyone up and getting out the house,” Allison, 12, told a local news outlet after rescuing her entire family and several pets
A 12-year-old girl is being praised for ensuring that her entire family survived a fire that engulfed their Virginia home.
At around 4:30 a.m. local time on March 7, Allison Escobar Gallo woke up to the smell of smoke in her family’s home in the 900 block of Virginia Avenue in Harrisonburg, local news outlet WHSV reported.
Allison quickly rushed out of bed in search of where the smoke was coming from and alerted her parents…