OAKLAND, Fla. — Eleven-year-old Jeremiah Grimes and 10-year-old Isiah Francis were plopped on the couch watching YouTube and playing video games, but Tuesday they smelled something unusual.
When they looked out the window, they saw smoke streaming from the home next door.
As Jeremiah put on his shoes, Isiah ran next door, where he encountered the neighbor frantically searching for water to douse the flames.
The man told him that two young children were inside.
Isiah went inside and, with Jeremiah’s guidance, plucked the 1-year-old and 8-month-old from the burning home.
“It was really smoky,” Isiah said. “I could kind of see, but I had to use my sense of touch.”
Two other children in the home were rescued by firefighters who arrived moments later, after Jeremiah called 911.
“They did something that a grown man would think twice about doing,” said Jeremiah’s mother, Stef Laboy. “They obviously didn’t think twice about it. They were very heroic.”
