A young woman lost her life after alerting five others about a raging house fire in the Sacramento-area community of North Highlands, California, on Christmas Day.
The inferno apparently was sparked by a faulty artificial Christmas tree, igniting the conversation about the importance of working smoke detectors in the home.
On Sunday, Dec. 25, at 2 a.m., Destiny Abdrazack woke up to a smell of fire in her future in-laws Sacramento home, according to reports.
The Sacramento Metro Fire department said the fire was caused by an electric short in the holiday tree. The 22-year-old Black woman alerted everyone in the home — her fiancé, future in-laws Ernest Isom and his wife, and two other adults — about the fire, helping them escape with no problem.
Abdrazack and the family’s two dogs did not make it, succumbing to the smoke and flames that ultimately destroyed the Isoms’ property.
The woman was found in the living room by firefighters and rushed to UC…
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