Seventeen-year-old Falon O’Regan is without a home and is now looking for others to help him.
Falon O'Regan, 17, spoke with FOX Television Stations about his quick-thinking actions that saved lives.A teenager is being hailed as a hero for his quick thinking after using a trampoline to rescue pets, children and adults trapped in a house fire.
Bentleyville Fire-Rescue in Pennsylvania said the blaze broke out early Tuesday morning at an apartment complex. "I had just laid down and I saw orange in my door," he told FOX Television Stations. "So I walked over to the door... opened it and as soon I as opened it, I was just engulfed in flames that were on my porch."O’Regan said he grabbed his personal items, went to the bottom floor, kicked out a window and jumped.
The teenager said once he was outside, he knew other families were still inside and started to yell that there was a fire. He then helped a few other people get out of the house. A neighbor then suggested to O’Regan to use a blanket to catch people who had to jump out the window."I started yanking it... he [the neighbor] ran over and started pulling with me," O’Regan said. "The trampoline was just a quick idea because it was the most reasonable thing we had besides the ground."The teenager said two dogs, two children and two adults were able to jump out of the window and onto the trampoline to escape the flames.
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