Heroes come in all ages.
“Jelyn Ronquillo, 12, was looking after her five sleeping sisters when she felt an intolerable amount of heat surrounding their shanty underneath Quiapo Bridge in Manila on Thursday, April 10,” reports Aie Balagtas See in The Philippine Star.
The kids’ father, Jeff, had gone to work and their mother, Weng, went out to buy food for their breakfast at around 8am.
Jelyn was alarmed when she saw smoke billowing from shanties above theirs. So, as the report said “she roused her next oldest siblings—Angela, 10, and Angel, 7—and told them they would have to jump into the river next to their shanty.”
