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Family barely escapes burning home

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April 24, 2008

Moultrie --  Keisha Bennett and her family watched TV in the living room Wednesday night. They pulled a mattress there to sleep because of a broken air conditioning unit.

That allowed the family to escape out a back door instead of being trapped by flames. Her husband Tracy woke up around one am and smelled smoke.    

"We were very lucky that my husband work up because I'm a heavy sleeper and I wouldn't never have known," Keshia Bennett.  

Firefighters say the home didn't have a smoke detector, and the family is lucky because smoke often puts people into a deeper sleep. Investigators think the dryer sparked the fire.

It destroyed the home. The American Red Cross is helping the family. They're staying with relatives.

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