A family in Tampa is just happy to be alive after a 12-year-old helped his siblings escape a raging house fire.

Rana Harb lost all her belongings when the fire destroyed her home but she’s glad to still have her kids.

She said her 12-year-old son jumped into action, ensuring his siblings got out of the smoke-filled home safely.

“The smoke’s getting bad, smoke’s getting bad. And he said, ‘OK, let’s go outside.’ So he gathered both of them and took them out the door with the neighbor,” said Harb.

Harb says her son’s heroic actions didn’t stop there.

After securing his siblings, he even attempted to fight the fire.

“He ran back in with the neighbor. That’s when they started using the fire extinguishers and nothing was stopping the flames,” said Harb.

The mother says the fire started on

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