Ohio Toddler Alerts Mom to Fire

A mother was awakened by her 3-year-old child just in time to escape a fire that gutted their home on Tuesday morning.

The blaze broke out at a wood-frame house near the corner of Lindy Avenue and Leggett Street at about 11:30 a.m.

Sonya Dunigan said that when she woke up, she saw a huge fire but was able to grab her two children and escape.

"(I lost) all my things, things that can't be replaced, like baby pictures. Everything I have was in there," she said.

So far, investigators have not determined the cause of the fire.

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