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five_alarm
10-07-2003, 11:26 AM
While playing a game of hide-and-seek in his family home, five-year-old Machel Maxwell found a lot more than he bargained for. A ceiling fan in his Orléans home had an electrical short and had started to spew smoke throughout a bedroom and other parts of the house -- but hadn't yet snared the attention of his parents, who were in the living room. In a move that would make Sparky the fire dog -- the fire department's mascot -- proud, Machel....

Source: The Ottawa Citizen (http://www.firehall.com/refer.php?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=7d8bb240-c3ff-466b-af0a-3685611b4fca&linkid=192&parent=news(headlines)&)