VIDEO: An 11-year-old boy trapped inside a burning home in Ingram used his cell phone to call his mom and help firefighters find him.
Pittsburgh firefighters said they were called to help with a fire on Leslie Street just before 10:45 p.m. When they got there, a woman said her son was trapped up on the third floor, where arriving crews had reported heavy smoke. The woman said she tried to find her son, but it was too hot, too smoky and just too dark.
The boy used his cell phone to call his mom, telling her he was in a low closet area up on the third floor, firefighters said.
The chief in command asked if the child could yell so firefighters could hear him, but his mom said he couldn't. So the chief told the mom to tell her boy to bang on the wall instead.