(Dalton Daily Citizen) – With two quick demands to her parents, five-year-old Adalyn Phillips saved a home that’s been in her family for three generations — and possibly saved her family’s lives — by using lessons learned during a tour of a Dalton Fire Department station.
Adalyn was playing in her room on Friday, April 7, at about 11:30 a.m. when she noticed fire coming from behind a toy box.
“There’s a fire in my room!” she yelled as she ran out the room.
She told her dad, Barry Phillips, to “get the fire extinguisher” and for her mom, Cortney Phillips, “dial 911.”
Barry Phillips said he was sitting on the couch when he heard a noise and saw something flash in Adalyn’s room. The fire was coming from a socket in the bedroom of their Dalton home.
“I grabbed the fire extinguisher from under the kitchen sink and sprayed the fire down,” he said.
Meanwhile, his wife took Adalyn, sons Christian and Frankie and their puppies outside as she called 911, which dispatched the Whitfield County Fire Department.
A few weeks before the fire, Adalyn’s pre-K class at the First Baptist Church of Dalton Children’s Learning Center visited Dalton Fire Department Station 1 for a tour. It was during that visit firefighter Konner Hall said something Adalyn remembered.
“He said call 911 and tell your parents if there is ever a fire in your room,” she said.
