VIDEO: A mother and her two young daughters rescued two weeks ago from a two-alarm fire at their home in Boston's South End were reunited with their heroes Tuesday.
"Thank you so much Boston fire for your help and bringing my family to safety," Alicia Soto told her rescuers.
On the morning of Dec. 2, thirty-one-year Soto and her two children, Annabelle and Amelia, were trapped in their third-floor apartment on West Newton Street when a fire broke out. "I thought for a minute that we might die. I really did. Before we got out. I was very scared," Soto said.
Soto, who is deaf, speaks through a translator and said that she woke to a special alarm that alerts her when her 6-month-old baby cries but realized something was very wrong when her dog Candy kept barking.
"All I could see was the smoke. It was very black and dark," she recalled. "I couldn’t see much far in front of me at all. We started going down the stairs and I couldn't see so we had to turn back."