Boy praised as hero for alerting family, neighbors to fire

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WILMERDING, Pa. — A boy is being called a hero for alerting his family and neighbors to a fire in his Wilmerding home early Tuesday.

Channel 11 learned 13-year-old Marvin James was getting up for school around 5:30 a.m. when he noticed smoke filling his Fifth Street home.

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No one was hurt. But residents who live there will have to find another place to stay until power is restored to the building.

“When I woke up, it was puffy. I didn’t understand what was going on until I looked in the kitchen and there were all these flames and then I was waking everybody up,” James said.

After the scene cleared, Channel 11's Liz Kilmer saw police go inside and bring a woman out in handcuffs.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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