July 21, 2025
Kid Runs Into Burning House—Saves His Whole Family
Twelve-Year-Old Romir Parker Charged Through Flames to Rescue His Baby Brothers and Grandmother—and Petersburg Just Made Him an Honorary Firefighter It was just after 1 a.m. on June 3, 2025, when Romir Parker—known as “Ramir” to friends at school—snapped awake in his family’s brick rancher on East Washington Street in Petersburg, Virginia. The house felt wrong: air thick, the kind of thick that presses on your lungs before your brain can name it. Smoke. In the seconds that followed, the twelve-year-old would make a decision most grown-ups pray they’d have the courage to make. He would run straight into danger,