We so often hear that a parent would do anything to protect his or her kin. But one extraordinary woman put that into action this past week after a fire overtook her home.
87-year-old Allene Callahan of Cherokee County, Georgia didn't spare a minute to hesitate after a house fire spread throughout her home, trapping her 67-year-old daughter Shirley, who worn born with Cerebral Palsy, inside. The flames had blockaded the front door, but WSB-TV reports that Allene wasted no time. She claims to have grabbed a water hose and sprayed down the door enough to get through. She then charged the house, lifted her sleeping daughter from the hospital bed were she was resting, and attempted to pull her daughter out. While she was in the home, a fire crew arrived at the scene and were able to safely remove both women from the home.
Asked how she mustered the strength, Shirley tells WSB-TV that it was God who gave her the strength. "I had plenty of strength honey. That was my child," she says. "You don’t know until you face something like that. It takes everything out of you."
Everything, indeed. But it's no small feat that a woman who's lived for the better part of a century displayed such heroism, but add in the fact that Allene's recently undergone open heart surgery and her story becomes nothing short of a miracle. Both women are unhurt and express gratitude to the fire crews that saved their lives.
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