Four Kids Were Saved By Their 11-Year-Old Brother From Their Burning House

Clarksville, Tennessee. Imagine you’re a mother of 5 young children, going down the street to run an errand, coming home ten minutes later, to flames and smoke coming out of your home, hoping all of your children are safe.

It’s a nightmare scenario and it happened to Kimberly Sims three weeks before Christmas on December 5th.

Thank goodness for 11-year-old Brody, one of five siblings home during the fire. He saw smoke coming out of the kitchen and went right into action.

He gathered up three of his siblings and ran them out the front door. He then quickly ran back in, past the fire in the kitchen, to get his little two-year-old brother, who was sleeping in his bedroom toward the back of the house.

GoFundMe; pictured above is Brody with his family

His extraordinary bravery and quick thinking saved his brothers and sisters. “I did what any big brother would do,” he said. He’s a true hero. Without the actions of Brody, the Sims’ would have lost more than their house.

The fire caused a total loss. The kids lost everything from clothes to toys. Although they came out with their lives, the fire destroyed almost everything else.

As a survivor of a house fire, I know these feelings. I came home to flames coming out the windows of my childhood home. I was 21-years-old.

I lost just about everything, clothes to almost all belongings. There are no more baby pictures, birth certificates with baby footprints, no personal treasures, or much of anything left for me to bring with me to my adulthood.

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Likewise, my parents lost family heirlooms and just about everything else to the damage created by the fire.

But that’s just it. The things that burned were just “things.” We could not replace some items, but my family was irreplaceable.

I was an adult when a house fire consumed my belongings. It was hard not to let it consume my life. Although I can still smell the torched remains of items of my youth, and when I hear fire alarms, sometimes my heart races, I am alive. My family survived.

I cannot imagine being a child going through the same thing and losing my clothes, shoes, and favorite toys.

Losing the home you grew up in, the Christmas tree your family decorated just the other day, would be devastating. Even though this story has a happy ending as everyone survived, there is a lot of healing and rebuilding ahead.

I hope the Sims’ Family gets the assistance they need and a home to return to. To help this family, you can donate to their GoFundMe here.

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