A 15-year-old boy is being hailed a hero after he jumped into action to help a neighbor during a house fire on Thursday in North Braddock.

Xaiveyon McMillan Taylor had just stepped off his school bus on North Avenue when he heard a woman screaming that her house had caught fire. The woman, a longtime school crossing guard in her 80s, is known by neighbors as "Ms. Evelyn."

"She is everybody's family, she's everybody's grandmother," said Tallula Thompson, the teen's mother and the caretaker for Ms. Evelyn's granddaughter.

She explained that her son ran inside the home to help the woman.

"He's autistic. He's very intelligent, but he's never experienced nothing like this before. So, he tried to put it out, and when he couldn't, he pulled her out of the house," Thompson said.

She explained

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