Elliye Ball of Clymer was sleeping one fateful night when she was woken up by her mother’s screams. The 12-year-old heard her mom, Tiffany, yelling after the smoke detector went off in the early morning hours of January 12, 2022.

A charred hole in the ground is all that's left after a devastating fire destroyed their home along route 430 in Sherman.

"I could see flames and smoke and the house was filling up with smoke," Tiffany Taylor said.

"When I woke up, all I could see was just the fire around me," said Elliye.

Elliye then ran through the flames to grab her 1-year-old brother Watson, who shared a bedroom with twin brothers, Archer and Holden.

But the fire was too intense and she couldn't get in.

"And I knew I wasn't going to be able to survive if I got to him," said Elliye.

What she didn't know at the time was while the baby was trapped inside, the twins had already gone downstairs with their mom earlier that evening.

Tiffany grabbed them and safely ran out the door, and called 911, before going back in to try and get the others, but wasn't able to.

"Right where the fire started was at the bottom of our stairs," said Tiffany.

Tiffany’s husband Josh was working at the time. He has already received home security camera alerts on his phone and was already on his way home.

"Because I just had a gut feeling something was wrong," said Joshua Taylor.

Prior to that, Elliye ran to the bedroom of her other brothers Miles, woke him up and kicked out the bedroom window.

"It was really scary, but there was a lot of adrenaline working. I said, ‘we need to jump, we need to jump, or we're going to die,’" said Ellyie.

The two jumped to safety and ran to a neighbor's house, where they eventually met up with their mom and the twins.

"All I can remember is Elliye telling me how bad she was hurt," said Tiffany.

"I kept asking, like, where Watson was," said Elliye.

Watson didn't make it. He died in the fire, two weeks shy of his second birthday with firefighters making the grim recovery.

"He was our miracle baby. His personality was definitely one of a kind. He was 100% a daddy's boy. He loved everything about life as a 1-year-old. He was so full of love," said Josh.

When Josh made it home he had no idea where anyone was, but knew Watson didn't make it and met up with his grieving family at the ambulance.

"We just had to be strong because Elliye and Miles were very critical and they needed us to be there," said Tiffany.

Elliye and Miles, badly burned, were rushed to UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania, before spending more than a hundred days at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

They have since gone through a number of surgeries and skin grafts, and will likely continue to go to medical appointments for the next two to five years.

"Their condition now is way better than expected, considering the fact that neither of them had a very high chance of survival," said Josh.

Now in their new home since the end of September, Elliye is grateful for the Red Cross recognition.

"I definitely do feel like a hero. I also think that my brother is one too for everything that he did," said Elliye.

Mom and dad couldn't be more proud.

"Without her, Miles wouldn't be here. She's probably the strongest person I know. She's gone through so much, along with Miles. And she just continues to keep going every day," said Tiffany.

And that's why Elliye Ball is your 2022 Red Cross Real Hero Good Samaritan Youth award winner.

The family has only been in their new home since the end of September, in between trips to the hospital in Pittsburgh.

The cause of the fire was determined to be from the electrical meter on the outside of their home.