‘I needed to get them out’: Cambridge woman alerts neighbors to house fire
CTV
A Cambridge family has been displaced after an early morning house fire, and they have their neighbour to thank for alerting them to the flames.
A Cambridge family has been displaced after an early morning house fire, and they have their neighbour to thank for alerting them to the flames.
Araz Mardirosian smelled burning wood around 4 a.m. Thursday and then realized it was coming from her neighbour’s home on Patton Drive.
“There was a lot of smoke and there were flames building up on top, so I called the fire department and ran across to wake the family up,” Mardirosian told CTV News. “I knew they had small children so I needed to get them out. I was banging and yelling out: ‘Fire! Get out! You need to get out, there’s a fire.’ So I woke them up and got them out as fast as I could.”
Home security footage, from a nearby property, captured the moment Mardirosian ran across the street and started banging on the front door.
Neighbours tell CTV News a family of seven lives in the home and three of the children are under of the age of five. They also said the family moved to Patton Drive less than a year ago.
The fire department tweeted that everyone who lives in the home escaped unharmed.
