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The heroic actions of a six-year-old girl helped bring her family to safety after a fire ripped through their home in North Yorkshire.

Olivia Lee Patterson was with a friend playing outside her home in Riccall, near Selby, on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, when she saw smoke coming from her neighbour’s house.

“She looked up and saw a fire blazing upstairs,” her grandmother Sadie Gelder told The Press.

The fire then spread to the roof of her semi-detached home.

Her mother Laura Lee Patterson, 29, was asleep on the sofa inside the house with Olivia’s siblings – Joel James Austin, aged 15 months, and Tiffany Rose Austin, aged two.

 

 

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