Children Saved from Burning House
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A Jackson woman is counting her blessings after she woke up to a house full of thick smoke and had to leave her children inside the house. “I mean I was scared, frantic….ran out the door and I was screaming,” said Eboni Evans, her home caught on fire Saturday afternoon. Evans said when she made her way to her front porch there were two missionaries standing across from her house. She said they offered to help rescue her children. “I don’t know. I just came outside and they were outside,” said Evans when asked why she thought the missionaries would be standing outside her home. Even though Evans is unsure why the missionaries were standing outside her home, one Jackson resident said she knows. “I had texted a missionary, as a matter of fact, I called them because I saw a blaze,” said Thelma Williams, a Jackson woman who claims to have the gift of seeing visions. Williams said she called the missionaries who informed her they had just saved two children from a burning house. Jackson Fire Department officials said the weather made conditions even more challenging. “The life of a firefighter in heat like this, with the turnouts we have on is like fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes these guys need to rehab,” said Captain Gregory Pewitte of the Jackson Fire Department. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
