2 students recognized for their bravery in Visalia

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two students astatine Riverway Elementary successful Visalia were recognized for their bravery and speedy enactment to get themselves and their grandma retired of a smoking house. 

Visalia Unified held a school-wide assembly with the Visalia Fire Department and the Visalia Police Department to admit Mateo Flores and Nicholas Flores for their speedy action.

The territory said occurrence crews responded to a telephone wherever fume was seen from a tiny occurrence coming from their AC centrifugal connected August 18 astir 3:30 p.m.

Mateo recognized the danger, turned disconnected the AC, and managed to pass each his household on with his younger member Nicholas, called 911, and got them retired of the house. 

When the occurrence section arrived, the territory said Mateo communicated with them for their grandma who does not talk English. 

The territory says their parent was retired of town. Mateo has had challenges with occurrence drills astatine schoolhouse owed to his sensitivity to large noises, but helium demonstrated that helium inactive understood what to do, and helped his full family.