How a 12 Year Old's Video Game Addiction Saved His Family

"According to WKYT, Jaxxyn Wood, a 12-year-old Danville, Ky. boy, was playing video games at 3:30 a.m. when he noticed a strong smell coming from the kitchen, "something really bad," said Wood,
"like Legos on fire." ()
It turns out the ice maker attached to the fridge had caught fire.


When Jaxxyn spotted the smoke, he ducked down and crawled towards the kitchen and saw that the ice maker was on fire. He tried to put out the fire himself, but it quickly became apparent that evacuating everyone was the right choice.

"I grabbed a plastic cup of water and put it out as much as I could, and then I went and got everybody."

Wood was able to wake up his sisters, who then woke up everyone else and got the family out of the house. All told, nine people were in the house at the time, and all made it out safely. Adding to this amazing story, firefighters later determined that there were no working smoke detectors in the house, so if Jaxxyn was not awake that late this story could have taken a much more tragic turn."

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Last Edited by Krystle|Ann on 12/31/2013 01:51 AM