A little boy wrapped up his baby sister and walked over to a neighbour's house to ask for help after believing his mum had died.
The shocked resident said she opened the door to find five-year-old Salvatore Cicalese and his two-month-old sister, wrapped in a blanket, who asked her to 'look after them' after his mum had a seizure in the shower.
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He told the neighbour he had managed to get out of the house by climbing onto a bar stool so he could reach the button to open the garage door. He fell on his first attempt but was able to get out after a successful second go.
The little LAD told the neighbour he had taken his baby sister to her house so she wouldn't have to see their mum's body. What a hero.
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Speaking to ABC, neighbour Jessica Penoyer said: "He's standing there and he's holding something I thought it was a doll." She added that she thought Salvatore was telling her his dog had died, but was then told, 'No, my mom died in the shower. Can you take care of us?'.
In a 911 call, Jessica told the handler: "My neighbour's son just came to my house and said that his mom was dead in the shower."
Emergency services raced to the house where Salvatore's mum, Kaitlyn Cicalese, was found unconscious in the bath, with the shower still running.
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Proud Kaitlyn told ABC: "He saved my life, because I was under the tap. I would have drowned."
She said she didn't remember much of the day, as she explained: "I turned on the shower, that's all I remember."
She also explained that her caring little boy would now check if she was OK every day.
"Every day is a challenge for us," she said. "He asks me, probably, a billion times if I'm going to be OK.
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"He'll tell me, 'are you going to have another seizure?'. No, I'm okay. 'Are you going to die today?'. No, I'm not going to die today."
As a result of his quick-thinking, Salvatore was made an honorary fireman.
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