SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee father is recovering at home after running back into his family’s burning house to save his 7-year-old son.

Ashley and Brandon Rorer woke up in the early morning hours of Aug. 25 to the sound of what they first thought was someone trying to break in. Instead, they discovered that the sound they heard was their home on fire.

Ashley Rorer said she thought she managed to get both of her children downstairs, but when she reached the front door, one was missing.

“When I got back to the top of the stairs, I had both kids, and then when I got to the front door to try to open it, I only had one,” she said.

Their son, Silas, was still inside. The dad, Brandon Rorer, went back into the flames and carried him out. He suffered burns on 9% of his body and sev

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