12-year-old Illinois girl saves siblings from house fire
As flames consumed her home and prevented her parents from rescuing her and two younger siblings, a quick-thinking 12-year-old girl saved the other children Saturday by kicking out a second-story window and helping them down. Derrionna Adams then leaped 15 feet to safety. Velma Dorris, the children's mother, and her husband, Bernard, were sleeping downstairs with three children when the fire started. Smoke and flames kept them from reaching the children upstairs. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Derrionna managed to guide her two siblings, a 9-year-old and an 8-year-old, onto the roof. The house was destroyed before firefighters could put it out.