Two children escaped a burning bed in Statham on Sunday night after a radiant heater caught fire in their bedroom.
According to a Barrow County Emergency Services news release, firefighters responded to a fire in the 500 block of 8th Street shortly after 10 p.m. and found the single-story structure with dark smoke coming out of a window.
All the residents — three adults and the two children had safely made it out of the home. The children, 7 and 8, woke up coughing due to smoke in the room and noticed the bed was on fire because the heater had been too close to it.
Crews deployed two hoses and made entry to quickly extinguish the fire, according to the release.