Elauda Seawright, 39, of Elkins Park, a mother and Philadelphia police officer, was recently featured by The Philadelphia Inquirer for rescuing her two daughters and her younger sister from an electrical fire in the basement of their two-story home in July.

From the article:

Seawright’s younger daughter, 12-year-old Elasia Grisson, noticed it first and woke up her mother saying she smelled smoke and could hear the fire alarm. Seawright sprang out of bed and raced to alert her other daughter, Ananda Grisson, 18, and 37-year-old Carmella, Seawright’s sister, who also lived in the home.

“I attempted to go downstairs but we couldn’t,” she told me. “The smoke was too heavy. I went in my bedroom and I looked out of the window and I said, ‘This is where we’ve got to go.’”

Seawright lowered her children out of the window with a bedsheet, but as she lowered Carmella, she lost her grip due to excessive smoke inhalation. Carmella fell to the ground and broke her left leg.

Elauda jumped from the window and sprained her ankle, then headed to a neighbor’s house to call for help. First responders arrived quickly, but the family’s house and all their belongings were destroyed.

Members of the police force have since given the family donations to help them through. Her best friend and colleague officer Jeanette Meizinger created a GoFundMe. $29,276 has been raised at the time of this writing.

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