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Teen, father rescue 3 from burning house |
A teenage boy and his father helped his grandmother, younger sister and brother escape a fire that destroyed a Piedmont Avenue home Saturday.No one was injured after the teen’s siblings accidentally set fire to a couch in the den about 12:30 p.m.The two younger children were playing with matches in the room at the back of the house, Columbia Deputy Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said.Chris Cunningham, 17, was in another room and heard his father yell about the fire. His father told him to get the younger children out of the house.Cunningham saw the couch burning and hurried to the nearby kitchen, where he found his 8-year-old sister, Jamora, and 7-year-old brother, Daishon.
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