Girls saves siblings from fire by tossing them from window

Sunday, February 24, 2008

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A 12-year-old girl saved her five younger siblings during a house fire by tossing them from a second-floor window. She leapt out after them, saving herself.

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