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TIL Victoria Pierro, the 6-year-old girl that saved her entire family from a burning house in Swampscott, MA. Victoria woke when the fan she used stopped running and she could see fire outside her window. She alerted her entire family, including her firefighter dad, saving them all from the fire.

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