A seven-year-old boy is being praised for saving his younger sister's life after jumping into her room through a window in their burning home to rescue her from the fire.

As reported by CNN, it had been a typical night for the Davidson family of New Tazewell, Tennessee on December 8.

Chris and Nicole's three children were in bed by 8:30 pm. Hours later, however, Nicole woke up smelling smoke and just minutes later it emerged that their home was on fire.

"[Chris] grabbed the fire extinguisher trying to buy me time to get the kids, and I grabbed the boys because they were closest to the fire," said Nicole told WVLT.

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Terrifyingly, 22-month-old Erin was trapped in her room.

Chris and Nicole were able to bring two-year-old Elijah and seven-year-old Eli, their foster son, to safety - but Erin's bedroom was surrounded by flames.

"The smoke and fire was so thick there was no way I could get to her," Chris told CNN.

"We went outside to get to her from the window, but there was nothing for me to stand on to reach up there. So I picked up Eli, who went through the window and was able to grab her from her crib."

"We couldn't be more proud of Eli," he said. "He did something a grown man wouldn't do."

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When the team of firefighters arrived, the family's home was completely engulfed in the flames.

The following day, "nothing was left," New Tazewell Fire Chief Josh Miracle told CNN.

"I thought I couldn't do it, but then I said, 'I got her, dad,'" Eli told CNN. "I was scared, but I didn't want my sister to die."

Both Nicole and Chris are former firefighters themselves.

The pair have fostered 34 children, including Eli, and adopted two others - Erin and Elijah.

"We lost everything that we have ever had," Chris added. "Our entire lives were in that home. Our three cars were also damaged in the fire."

"It's devastating. We have nothing," he said. "You have never been as humble as you are when you don't even have your own underwear to wear."

A heroic pizza delivery man has saved two children and three teenagers from a fiery blaze in Indiana.

Driver Nicholas Bostic put his food delivery on hold when he saw a house on fire in the city of Lafayette on July 11.

With little concern for his own safety, the brave 25-year-old ran into the burning building and pulled the five inhabitants out.

Speaking to ABC7 Chicago, Bostic explained that he couldn't call 911 for help because he didn't have his phone on him. Instead, he entered the house through the back door and ran upstairs.

There, he found the four siblings (aged 18, 13, 6, and 1) and a 13-year-old friend who was staying at the house for a sleepover. Bostic quickly rushed them all outside. Unfortunately, he didn't realize until he'd left the property that another six-year-old girl was still inside.

Even though there was thick smoke filling the house, the heroic delivery man ran back inside, found the child, then punched through a window so they could both escape.

When emergency services eventually arrived on the scene, Bostic was taken to the hospital to have a cut on his arm seen to. Luckily, his injuries were not too severe, and he has since been discharged.

Reflecting on his brave actions, Bostic said: "I’m glad I was there at the right time, the right place. If [the] opportunity came again and I had to do it, I would do it."

"I knew what I was risking. I knew the next second it could be my life. But every second counted," he added.

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The delivery man went on to reveal that the kids' father had offered to reward him for his heroism.

"The dad said he’d love to take me out for dinner. They have wide-open arms welcoming me as a part of their family," he told the outlet.

According to Lafayette Police Lt. Randy Sherer, all of the children Bostic rescued from the blaze are also doing well. In a statement, the police department released a statement confirming his heroic actions.

"Nicholas happened to be driving by the block of Union street when he noticed a house on fire. He immediately stopped in the roadway, threw his car into reverse, turned around and pulled into the driveway," the statement described.

"He knew he had to act. He ran around to the back of the home and was able to open the back door. He began yelling inside [but] didn’t receive an answer. He walked through the house, calling out the danger, and eventually made his way up the stairs. He found four kids and helped them escape from the house," it added.

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An Amazon delivery driver has been praised online for helping an elderly lady and her granddaughter evacuate a burning house in New Jersey.

On May 20, 30-year-old Wakie Medina was carrying out his deliveries in Woodbridge, New Jersey, when he noticed smoke coming out of one of the homes.

"At first, I thought someone was having a cookout; but when I got closer I realized, no, this is too much smoke. I have to see what is going on," Medina said, per Patch.

Alarmed by what he saw, Medina left his truck and headed towards the house. It was there that he saw that the roof of the back porch was ablaze. Medina also recalled seeing a young teen attempting to put out the fire using a watering can.

The teen told the delivery driver that his grandmother and little sister were still inside and were totally unaware of the situation.

"The house was filled with smoke. I just ran up the stairs and shouted at them 'Yo, the house is on fire! Come down!'" Medina recalled.

Fortunately, a neighbor by the name of Ashley Latham eventually noticed that the house was on fire and called emergency services. Meanwhile, Medina helped the elderly lady and her granddaughter evacuate. Luckily, neither of them required any medical attention.

Latham said: "It wasn't a big fire, but I just thought it was such a brave thing to do. "Anyone else could have just gotten back in the truck and waited because we knew fire trucks were on the way. I really think he would have done the same thing if it had been a bigger fire."

Latham, who just so happens to also be an employee of Amazon, later shared Medina's heroic actions with management at the tech company.

"I did what I had to do and got out of the way and went back to my truck. I was in the right place at the right time," Medina added.

Last month, as a reward for his bravery, he was honored as the driver of the month and was gifted a thank you card signed by Amazon leadership, a 40-inch TV, and a backpack full of gifts.

"It is cool, but I wasn't expecting any of this," he said. "I just did that out of the kindness of my heart, I guess."

Needless to say, plenty of people have since taken to social media to praise Medina for his bravery.

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Well done, Medina!

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Toward the end of last week and over the weekend, I'm sure that plenty of you got to sit around the table with your loved ones and enjoy a pretty good Thanksgiving evening. We talk about Black Friday and eating a ton of food, but spending time with people you love and/or barely tolerate is the true spirit of the holidays.

But one thing we don't talk about enough at Thanksgiving is the generous, altruistic spirit that comes over all of us at the holidays, where we bring happiness to others with our natural kindness. That's what happened at a restaurant in North Carolina, as a random stranger stepped in at just the right time to save a baby from choking.

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Hannah Jarvis was celebrating her first Thanksgiving with her seven-month-old daughter Calli and family of eight at a Golden Corral restaurant in Hendersonville. "We were just feeding her some mashed potatoes," Jarvis explained, but suddenly, disaster struck: "She just started gagging all of a sudden. She was choking."

"I had just walked back in from getting some food," Cimarron Waldrup, Jarvis' father (and Calli's grandfather) said of the incident. "I noticed something was going on wrong. They were getting out napkins. I thought she was just spitting up." A waitress, realising the danger, called out for someone - anyone - to help the choking infant.

But as panic started to set in, Waldrup recalled the impeding tragedy, his eyes welling up as he did so. "The folks turned to my grandbaby, and that's when that lady that saved her came up." At that moment, a woman by the name of Deborah Rouse stepped up, and saved the day when all seemed lost.

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"This lady named Deborah intervened, and she started performing the Heimlich maneuver on her," Jarvis explained. "She held her down, like this, taking multiple blows to her back. It was miraculous, she started breathing again. She told me her name is Deborah Rouse."

The Heimlich maneuver is actually a complicated techniques intended for adults, but experts say that Deborah Rouse employed a technique better suited for small children and infants, which involves blows to the back. Although Jarvis got a chance to thank Rouse amidst the chaos, she posted to Facebook, hoping to thank her properly.

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"If anyone knows who Deborah Rouse is, this lady is a hero!" Jarvis wrote on Facebook, hoping to track Rouse down for her heroics that day.

"If it weren't for this angel, my daughter probably would have been wheeled away in an ambulance today. Thank you for saving my daughter's life and thank you Trish from Golden Corral who helped intervene as well! My family and I can't thank you enough for helping. My daughter is fine and has been seen at the ER and is perfectly happy and healthy now."

Well done to Deborah Rouse, who it turns out, has five kids of her own. This holiday season, more than anything, is about taking notice of the ones we love around us, and everyone involved in this story will be acutely aware of that this Thanksgiving.

What's the most heroic thing you'd ever done by the age of 10? Most people probably haven't managed to do anything particularly courageous at that age - especially since we all want to minimise the danger that children find themselves in. I think the bravest thing I ever did as a child was take the rap for my younger sister after she accidentally smashed some of my grandmother's glass ornaments. However, as annoyed as she was, I certainly wasn't in any mortal danger, and I didn't exactly save my sister's life.

However, at age 10 Carlos Matos is already a real hero whose quick thinking has saved the lives of no less than six people, thanks to his keen sense of observation, cool head under pressure, and good common sense. Now the pint-sized paladin is going to be awarded a special commendation by the city council of Healdsburg, California.

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On the evening of Sunday, November 25, young Carlos was eating rice in the kitchen of the Magnolia Manor senior care facility where his mother worked. Now, Carlos is an observant boy, and he was alarmed when he saw smoke curling up from the stovetop of the kitchen's oven. Acting fast, the quick-thinking kid alerted his mother Liz, who worked as the facility administrator, telling her that he could see smoke rising from the oven and that he suspected a fire.

However, before Carlos could do anything more, the fire began shooting out of the oven, nearly burning him. The brave boy reportedly attempted to battle the flames with a fire extinguisher - but this proved ineffective, and so he was compelled to dial 911. Soon, Carlos' mother Liz Matos and a number of local police officers had arrived on the scene and began to help rescue six of the residents who were still stuck inside the facility.

Firefighters from the Healdsburg fire department soon arrived with engines and water tankers, and thankfully they managed to contain the inferno and save some of the structure from damage. Commenting on the incident, Healdsburg fire marshal Linda Collister described Carlos as having: "A very cool head on his shoulders. He’s kind of a hero. It could have been bad. … The fire spread pretty quickly.”

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Officials say that nobody was badly injured by the fire, although paramedics were on had to provide medical care. A number of animals have also gone missing, although Carlos managed to rescue a little Chihuahua. California Fire Battalion Chief Marshall Turbeville had estimated the damage caused by the blaze to be approximately $200,000. Furthermore, Collister claims that the senior care facility didn’t feature a sprinkler system. The cause of fire, is still unknown.

It's amazing to think that six fully-grown adults owe their lives to young Carlos. Personally, I think that he might have a bright future ahead of him as a firefighter, or maybe even a full-blown superhero. Carlos: you're a legend!