VIRGINIA — A Newport News, Virginia family is lucky to be alive after a fire came dangerously close to destroying their home.<\/p>\n
It’s usually firefighters who save lives, but this time it was a 17-year-old who many are calling a hero.<\/p>\n
After seeing heavy smoke and flames, Jordan Jones<\/strong> picked up a hose, jumped on his roof and began battling the flames.<\/p>\n Jones<\/strong> was playing catch outside when he noticed heavy, black smoke coming from his apartment building.<\/p>\n “So I went around, grabbed the water hose, and I took it through the house and I hopped on top of the roof and started spraying where I saw the fire,” Jordan <\/strong>explained.<\/p>\n His family watched in shock as the teen fearlessly worked to put out the flames. “I was worried about him being on the roof, not being a professional. But he did save the day,” said Jones’<\/strong> great aunt Juanita Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Fire crews arrived a short time later and relieved Jordan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “I don’t really feel like a hero I just made sure nothing else burned down,” he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VIRGINIA — A Newport News, Virginia family is lucky to be alive after a fire came dangerously close to destroying their home. It’s usually firefighters who save lives, but this time it was a 17-year-old who many are calling a hero. After seeing heavy smoke and flames, Jordan Jones picked up a hose, jumped on […]<\/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-6916","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\/6916","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=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}