{"id":19182,"date":"2013-01-21T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19182"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:43:58","slug":"cub-scout-honored-for-saving-family-from-fire-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19182","title":{"rendered":"Cub Scout Honored For Saving Family From Fire Last\u00a0Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MICHIGAN<strong> &#8211; Andrew Palmer<\/strong>\u00a0of Bingham Farms, Mich., received the Heroism Award Wednesday from the Boy Scouts Of America for saving his family from their burning home last year.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August 2011, <strong>Palmer<\/strong> awoke to find his house engulfed in flames. But rather than freak out, the fifth grader took immediate action. He told his mother, then ran down the hall yelling \u201cFire!\u201d and waking up his sister. <strong>Palmer\u2019s<\/strong> mother, <strong>Jann<\/strong>, woke up his two brothers. His father wasn\u2019t home at the time of the fire, but he was understandably filled with pride. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of what he did,\u201d <strong>Lewis Palmer<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Palmer\u2019s<\/strong> school, Bingham Elementary, the kind words kept coming. \u201cWe always say our motto is we\u2019re bringing our Bingham best, and <strong>Andrew<\/strong> really personified that,\u201d <strong>Principal Russ Falcone<\/strong> said. The school honored <strong>Palmer<\/strong> for his brave actions last year as well.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, nobody was injured in the fire, which forced the <strong>Palmers<\/strong> to move out for 8 months while their house was renovated.<\/p>\n<p>Southland <strong>Fire<\/strong> <strong>Chief Keith Rowley<\/strong> will also give <strong>Palmer<\/strong> a Tribute Award from Southfield <strong>Mayor Brenda Lawrence.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHIGAN &#8211; Andrew Palmer\u00a0of Bingham Farms, Mich., received the Heroism Award Wednesday from the Boy Scouts Of America for saving his family from their burning home last year. Back in August 2011, Palmer awoke to find his house engulfed in flames. But rather than freak out, the fifth grader took immediate action. He told his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}