{"id":30391,"date":"2019-10-04T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:04:41","slug":"teenagers-bravery-after-saving-sister-and-grandparents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/teenagers-bravery-after-saving-sister-and-grandparents\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager\u2019s Bravery After Saving Sister and Grandparents"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenager has been presented with an Honoured Citizen Award Saving after saving his sister and grandparents from a burning house at age 13.<\/p>\n

Joshwyn Patel, 13 and his older sister Syonn, 14 were spending a weekend at their grandparents’ home in Belgrave, Leicester on Saturday, August 3 when it suddenly became engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

The, two teenagers were in an upstairs bedroom when Syonn noticed a glowing light from under the door.<\/p>\n

Joshwyn risked his life to help his grandfather, Hasmukh, 68 and 69-year-old grandmother, Tara to flee the burning house when they realised the fire was rapidly spreading throughout the Kensington Street house.<\/p>\n

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Joshwyn has now been presented with an Honoured Citizen Award for his act of bravery after being nominated by Belgrave Ward councillor, Nita Solanki.<\/p>\n

She said: “The outcome could have been very different and I was keen to make sure he got recognised for what he did.”<\/p>\n

The award was presented to him by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Annette Byrne on Wednesday, October 2 at Leicester Town Hall.<\/p>\n

He was praised for his bravery and for staying so calm during such a dramatic incident.<\/p>\n

Lord Mayor, Councillor Annette Byrne said: “To save your sister and your grandparents – that would be hard for anyone but for a 13-year-old that is amazing.”<\/p>\n

During the fire, Joshwyn was quick to call the fire service who tackled the flames that had spread throughout the house.<\/p>\n

Joshwyn told Leicestershire Live: “My sister told me to ring the fire brigade as soon as possible but my phone wasn’t charged so I had to run downstairs to get the house phone.<\/p>\n

“At the start I felt quite scared but I managed to calm myself down so I could get everyone out the house and make sure they were safe.<\/p>\n

“Towards the end of the evening I felt quite stressed because my grandparents felt stressed and I just felt stressed for them.”<\/p>\n

Joshwyn’s proud parents were relieved that their children were safe.<\/p>\n

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The teenager’s father, Minesh Patel, 42 said: “It’s a credit to both my son and daughter.<\/p>\n

“Most children would panic but Joshwyn kept a clear head and even though I would never want my kids in that situation, if he hadn’t have been there my parents would have been trapped.”<\/p>\n

Bhavneeta, the teenagers’ mother was on the phone to Syonn at the time of the incident. She said: “My heart was in my throat when my daughter rang me – she was hysterical so I kept her on the phone and drove straight there.<\/p>\n

“I am so proud of them for how they dealt with it.”<\/p>\n

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service has said the cause of the blaze was accidental, due to a naked flame exposed to combustible materials.<\/p>\n

Now the family want to urge others to be more vigilant when lighting candles at home.<\/p>\n

At times of prayer, Hindus light a small tealight candle called a diva which are often left burning.<\/p>\n

Mr Patel said: “Now my mum makes sure she only leaves the diva burning for as long as she needs it. It’s important to make sure that they’re not left unattended.”<\/p>\n

Joshwyn’s father also said they have been approached by Leicestershire Fire and Rescue service to “go around to different schools to raise awareness.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A teenager has been presented with an Honoured Citizen Award Saving after saving his sister and grandparents from a burning house at age 13. Joshwyn Patel, 13 and his older sister Syonn, 14 were spending a weekend at their grandparents’ home in Belgrave, Leicester on Saturday, August 3 when it suddenly became engulfed in flames. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}