Mersey marvel Callum Baccino who saved the lives of 10 people

The Ten year old boy who I reported about last week when he showed great heroics when he saved his whole family of 8 and his two friends who were staying the night at his home.

This brave boy Callum Baccino has been awarded Mersey Marvel by the Liverpool Echo.

WELL DONE CALLUM.

Callum is our Mersey Marvel for saving 10 people from house fire

Sep 13 2006

By Mary Murtagh, Liverpool Echo


Mersey marvel Callum Baccino who saved the lives of 10 people

A SCHOOLBOY who saved 10 people from a house fire is our latest Mersey Marvel.

Callum Baccino, aged 10, led his parents, five siblings and two friends to safety after spotting a blaze engulfing the house next door.

The fire hero was singled out by firefighters for his brave and quick thinking.

Now the modest school boy has been named a Mersey Marvel in recognition of his life-saving actions.


Callum, a pupil at Thomas Gray primary school, Bootle, was hosting a summer holiday sleepover for two friends at his Bootle home when he woke up and smelt smoke at 6.45am on September 4.

He went to investigate and saw a fire raging through a neighbouring house on Newton Walk.

Callum raced upstairs to wake his mum Maxine and dad Phil then rounded up his siblings, Kieran, 13, Aimee, 11, Amelia, seven, Morgan, five and Cameron, three, as well as his two sleepover pals.

By the time the family escaped outside in their pyjamas, smoke was coming through the walls in Callum's room and the windows next door were breaking because of the extreme heat.


Merseyside Fire and Rescue presented Callum with a certificate in re-cognition of his quick thinking and now Callum has his Mersey Marvels certificate to go alongside it.

Callum's mum Maxine said: "We are really proud of Callum. What he did was brilliant."

The family have since had new smoke alarms fitted in their home by the fire service as the ones they had did not have batteries installed.

The fire was started deliberately in the empty house next door after vandals broke in.

The ECHO gives £250 to each of our special Mersey Marvels, with a further £500 for the overall winner voted for by ECHO readers.

Each of the Marvels will be invited to a special lunch in Liverpool later this year when the overall winner will be announced.

ECHO Editor Alastair Machray said: "Callum is only 10-years-old but he showed the quick thinking of someone much older when he spotted the fire.

"If Callum had not acted when he did the ECHO could have been reporting a fatal fire that day."