NEW CASTLE, DE — A Delaware teen defied his mother and stayed up late Tuesday night binging on the Netflix series “The Flash.” But his mother, Angela Marie Borden, isn’t going to ground him. Because 13-year-old Damir Carter was awake around 1 a.m. when he shouldn’t have been, he was able to save Borden from a fire that broke out in the family’s home in New Castle and destroyed it.
The fire destroyed the family’s home and the possessions inside. Borden got her dog, Twix, out, but some of the family’s other pets didn’t survive.
Borden told her son to go to bed about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and turn off Netflix, which he was watching on his phone. But he kept watching. He began to hear things breaking, but thought the cats were up to some mischief in the bathroom.
But then he saw smoke in the hallway and a fire in the kitchen.
“When I saw that, I started yelling for my mom because she was asleep at the time,” the teen told television station WPVI. “If Netflix wasn’t there, I probably would have went to sleep.”
Borden is grateful for her son’s defiance, and says she’ll give him a pass on punishment.
“I don’t know where we (would) be if he listened and went to sleep,” she posted on Facebook, according to an account by The News-Journal in Wilmington.
“Our house is gone, but we are still standing,” she said. “We (were) told our breaker box was pulling too much outside power, causing a spark in an outlet.”
At least eight pets — four dogs, a cat and three bearded dragons — didn’t make it out of the mobile home, according to reports.
Borden told television station WCAU the family’s previous home was also destroyed by a fire about four years ago.
A crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe with a goal of $1,000 seeks to replace some of the family’s possessions and help them get resettled.
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