A Manitoba family is picking up the pieces after losing everything in a house fire, but thanks to the quick thinking of their 12-year-old daughter, all of them are alive.
Emily Neufeld was at their home in La Broquerie, about 55 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg, with her two younger brothers on the afternoon of March 2. They were waiting for their parents to get home from work.
The Grade 7 student had just gotten off the phone with her mom, who was at work in Winnipeg, and was getting ready to start her chores when she noticed a smell coming from the laundry room in the