DALTON, Ga. - A 16-year-old is being credited with saving his younger siblings from a house fire early Thursday morning in Dalton.

The family had five smoke alarms, but only one worked. Luckily, it woke up16-year-old Alex Pellecer. The Dalton Fire Department is now crediting him with saving the lives of three others.

"The fireman said that if it wasn't for that, we'd be dead. Burned alive," says Pellecer.

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