{"id":3931,"date":"2011-12-01T14:02:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","slug":"old-cell-phone-saves-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/old-cell-phone-saves-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Cell Phone Saves Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Fire.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2217\" title=\"Fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Fire.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2217 lazyload\" title=\"Fire\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Fire.jpg\"><\/a>A forgotten old cell phone helped to save the lives of a family caught in a house fire on Tuesday night in Canada.  Shea Smith, who works at the bakery at Real Canadian Superstore and his family, lost their possessions, which were uninsured, when the fire gutted their home in Duncan.  Shea\u2019s mother Lisa and Sandy Wall, her partner, were asleep when Smith arrived home at 173 McKinstry Place to drop off some video games he had purchased.  Smith then left to catch a ride that was waiting for him, only to realize he had forgotten his cell phone and decided to go back for it. This move saved his family\u2019s lives as, once back inside the house, he saw smoke coming from a small cloakroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>\u201cFour foot flames were reaching up and were already on the walls,\u201d Shea says.  \u201cI slammed the door, yelled \u2018Fire!\u2019 and then tried to fill a garbage can with water.  When I opened the door to the cloakroom, fire just billowed out and I was blown back.  I kicked the door closed and got everyone out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The interim bakery manager at the store, Anders Oke, sees Smith as a hero.  \u201cIf he hadn\u2019t returned for his cell phone, they might have been asphyxiated,\u201d he notes. Smith and his family are now staying with grandparents until they can find somewhere else to rent, though Shea says he has learned his lesson about not having insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forgotten old cell phone helped to save the lives of a family caught in a house fire on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Old Cell Phone Saves Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/old-cell-phone-saves-family\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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