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Dallas officers rescue mother, 3 girls from fire at Red Bird home
Two Dallas police officers rescued a mother and her three young daughters from an overnight fire at their Red Bird home.
No one was hurt in the fire at the home in the 700 block of West Red Bird Lane, near South Polk Street.
The two officers, one of them a new recruit, were patrolling the area about 2:45 this morning when they saw flames coming from the home. They alerted Dallas Fire-Rescue and knocked on the front door.
When no one answered, the younger officer kicked in the back door of the home. Inside they found the mother asleep, along with her three girls, ages 4, 7 and 8. All four escaped the home safely.
"It took great bravery to do what they did," the officers' supervisor, Sgt. Benny Handley, told KFDW-TV (Channel 4).
Firefighters arrived shortly afterward and quickly extinguished the fire. Investigators say the blaze started in a metal fireplace that the family had been using the night before.
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The Red Cross is helping the family find emergency housing.
Neither the mother nor the officers who saved the family had been identified this morning.
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