A Benton Harbor grandson pulled his 85-year-old grandmother out of a house fire through a window
A fire started in a kitchen in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on Friday afternoon. A grandson pulled his 85-year-old grandmother out through a window, and she was outside before firefighters got there.
5 November 2026
Photo: WNDU
The fire started in the kitchen just after 4 p.m. on 30 October, in a house near Hull and Thresher avenues in Benton Harbor, WNDU reported. Her grandson got her out through a window. When fire crews arrived, she was already outside.
Crews had the fire out in about ten minutes.
Both of them breathed in some smoke. It was minor, and they drove themselves to hospital to get checked.
Neither of them has been named. The Herald-Palladium first reported the rescue.
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