Twelve people survived a massive house fire on Vancouver Island on Halloween night, and a Duncan man is being credited with pulling a five-year-old boy from the burning building.
The house is owned by Phil and Loretta Wilson, who have seven children. That night, nine children and three adults were asleep in the house — following a Halloween celebration.
"At one o' clock in the morning I woke up to a phone call from my sister, screaming to get up to house which was on fire," recalled Smith on Wednesday. His dad, one uncle and a brother alerted everyone to get out of the burning home. But when they realized the little boy was still inside, Phil punched open the living room window and neighbor Wilson didn't hesitate to charge into the danger.
"But when a life is at stake you don't think," she said."He obviously didn't think about that stuff, he just knew a child's life was at stake and he needed to help."His parents are injured as well. His father's hand sustained injuries from breaking the glass of the living room window, and his mother was injured when she jumped out of a second-floor bedroom window to escape the fire.
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