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The Guardian // World // Europe

Experience: I rescued my children from a burning car

Friday 1st August 2025, 4:00AM

I opened the door and saw flames spreading fast. My daughter screamed, ‘Mummy!’One morning in 2018, my husband Reuben told me about a nightmare he’d had the previous night. He’d been driving over the Hewitt Avenue Trestle, a bridge near our house in Everett, Washington in the US, crashed through the barriers into the estuary below, and had to decide which of our two children to save.Two weeks later, I was getting Talia, then three, and Weston, 10 months, dressed, fed and out of the door to take them to preschool on my way to work. Continue reading...

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