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2 kids jump from burning duplex in Dayton

UPDATE @ 6:14 p.m.:

Two young boys left home alone Friday afternoon jumped to safety out a second-story window of their burning duplex.

The boys, ages 4 and 6, were playing on something atop the stove when it caught fire. The boys ran upstairs and then jumped out the window, said Tim Rose, Dayton Fire Department district chief.

‘They were left home alone,” said Rose, who added that investigators were called regarding the children left unsupervised at the time of the fire.

UPDATE @ 5:06 p.m.:

“I was coming down the alley and they were yelling help,” a woman tells a 911 operator about the two young boys who had jumped out a second-story window after an item on the stove caught fire this afternoon.

“When I came arond the corner they were outside. The one has no shoes on,” the woman told the 911 operator.

UPDATE @ 4:20 p.m.:

The two young children who jumped from a second story window of their duplex this afternoon were taken to Dayton Children’s Hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.

A woman who identified herself as a cousin said the children’s mother missed the bus or was momentarily delayed from the hair salon where she worked. which is why the children were left alone at the time of the fire.

FIRST REPORT

Two young children jumped from a burning duplex this afternoon in Dayton.

The children, ages 4 and 6, were home alone playing with something on the stove when it caught fire, according to Dayton firefighters, who were called around 2:45 p.m. to the residence in the 800 block of Manhattan Avenue.

The children ran upstairs when the fire broke out and leapt from a second-story window.

A neighbor saw the smoke and the children and called the fire department.