VIDEO: A fire burned through a Smithfield family's home a week before Thanksgiving.
The fire started around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at Anthony and Teresa Lynn's home of 18 years located on Longview Drive.
Thankfully, a working smoke detector woke Teresa up in time. She then alerted the rest of the house and got everybody out safely.
"When my wife came and told me the house was on fire and to get out, our whole world changed in about 60 seconds," Anthony said. "Nobody would ever go to bed thinking that you're going to lose your home."
"If they had not had working smoke detectors they could have been badly injured or could have lost their life," Fire Chief Jeremey Daughtry said.