A 2-year-old kid has been hailed as a hero after saving his family from a fire in the middle of the night by waking up his parents, who were ignorant of the smoke since they had lost their sense of smell due to the coronavirus.

Nathan, 33, and Kayla Dahl, 28, who suffered from Covid-19 and lost their sense of smell and taste, did not wake up to the smell of smoke, and their fire alarms did not go off.

Little Brandon, who was asleep in the living room, was startled awake by the smoke and flames and woke his mother.

Kayla speaking on Good Morning America said, ‘He tapped me on my feet in bed and was coughing and saying, “Mama, hot. Mama, hot. I turned around. I looked and all I saw was flames in the doorway.’

The parents awoke swiftly and rescued their five children from the burning house.

Nathan, the father said, “We had seconds. It’s nothing short of a miracle.”

A volunteer firefighter for six years, Nathan, had taught his children what to do in the event of a fire, in particular not touch anything while trying to escape.

He recalled saying, “She’s screaming, Fire! Fire! Fire!. My initial thought was, ‘OK, I’m going to get up and I’m going to get to work’.”

None of the smoke alarms in their home at Alvord, Texas, rang, according to the father.

Nathan said to WFAA, “We had brand new, less than a year old, smoke alarms in our house. None of them went off.”

The family stood outside, watching the inferno consume their home and two cars.

Nathan said, “About maybe a minute after we got out of the house, our front door had flames coming out of it. Everything was in flames.”

Kayla bemoaned the fact that ‘everything was gone’ inside her house, as well as the fact that she had lost her car. She was, however, appreciative of her young son’s bravery.

She said, “Brandon saved us. He saved our entire family. I mean, he’s our little mini hero.”