I love when I come across a blog about heroic things that ordinary people do. There is so much in the news about celebrities and it can get boring reading the same stories about them on different days.  I especially love when I find stories about children that are remarkable. I was reading a blog post on Parent Dish called Nine-Year Old Saves The Day and I have to tell you it will give you goose bumps…….

"Shyra Torres plans to be a hero when she grows up — she’s going to be
a teacher. Already, however, the nine-year-old is a hero of another
sort. She awoke early Saturday morning to the sound of a crackling fire
in her New Jersey home, but not the warm comforting kind you find in a
fireplace — instead, this was the life-taking, home-destroying type
that eats people and houses.

She woke her sister Natasha and
together they got everyone — thirty-four people in all, living in
three row houses — up and out of the house. She woke her mother who,
at first, didn’t believe her. "She thought I was joking, but I wasn’t,"
said Shyra Torres. "I ran and said ‘Tasha, Tasha, wake up’ and we all
got out of the house."

What amazed me about this story is that a nine-year old took such control of a horrible situation. She went into survival mode and saved so many people. Isn’t it refreshing to read about good news? I think so!