Fire investigators interviewed the child and say she also burned her finger on the lighter
Fire investigators say a 6-year-old girl playing with a lighter started a fire at a mobile home Sunday morning. However, that little girl also saved her family.
6-year-old Hannah cried as she spoke with fire investigators Sunday morning. They say she burned her middle finger while playing with a lighter in her bedroom around 8:45am. That lighter sparked a fire. By 9am, that fire destroyed her family’s mobile home on Moultrie Road.
“My daughter come running down the hall saying, ‘Our house is on fire,’” Patty Sutton said.
Sutton is Hannah’s mom. Sutton says she was sleeping when her daughter told her there was a fire.
“Time stopped in place. Just stopped right there.”
Hannah, Sutton, and Sutton’s three other young children were inside. Sutton’s husband had already left for work.
“I seen the smoke when I went back to get my son when he hid in the corner.”
Fire investigators say the fire spread quickly through the mobile home, forcing the family to get out, fast.
“I think it took maybe five minutes and it was gone,” said Sutton.
“Usually the mobile homes will have paneling or something inside of them instead of the sheet rock that would hold the fire back,” Albany Fire Department Battalion Chief Marty Leverette said. “It’ll burn through the paneling pretty quick.”
The family is OK, but lost everything in the fire. The Red Cross is helping.
“Put them up in a motel or something tonight until they can regroup and try to get some clothing and a place to stay.”
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