10-Year-Old Girl Saves Family From Indiana House Fire: 'She Punched Through and Broke the Glass'

A 10-year-old girl is being credited with helping save her siblings and grandmother after a fire tore through their apartment in Indiana early Sunday morning.

Body cameras caught the dramatic rescue from a second-story apartment, where five children, ages three to 13, and their grandmother jumped from a window and into the arms of emergency responders, perNBC station WAVE.

“She punched through and broke the glass out of the way,” Patrolman Nichole Midgett told the outlet. “And then she just started pulling the babies out and all the children jumped out.”

Police say they responded to the fire around 1:00 a.m. on July 3.

“Upon arriving, Officers observed that multiple people were trapped in an upstairs apartment, and the staircase was engulfed in flames,” theywroteon social media.

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After the child “began breaking out windows,” the authorities “were able to catch each child as they jumped from the windows.”

Afterwards, the responding officers “began to fight the blaze until more fire fighters could arrive on scene.” Additionally they went inside to make sure nobody else was trapped.

“It was one of the most chaotic scenes we’ve ever been on, yet the most seamless response we’ve probably ever had,” Patrolman Phillip Wimpee told the outlet. “And I think all of us would agree with that.”

source: people.com