Daniel Zuckerman is reporting in The Daily Mail Cairo resident Shannon Jackson rescued her three children from the family's burning car Mon., Oct. 17. Cairo police reported Jackson was taking her three daughters, aged three, six and seven, to Cairo Elementary School, when she noticed smoke coming from the vehicle's engine. Thinking the car was overheating, Jackson continued on, but eventually pulled over on Route 41, in Cairo. When she opened the hood of the car, flames burst from the engine. Jackson immediately closed the hood, and turned off the car. She then unbuckled each child, and pulled them from the vehicle. Jackson told each girl to run to a bench a far distance away. “I went almost halfway to the bench and there was an explosion,” she said. “I couldn’t believe how fast that car went up in flames.” Cairo Police Department Officer-in-Charge Richard Busch praised the efforts of the family, calling it a “picture perfect scenario” of what to do in a fire emergency. He said, “She got them a safe distance away before the tires started popping.” Jackson received help from a nearby woman who helped get the children to safety. The explosion and fire damaged the vehicle beyond repair. Jackson said the tires melted, the seats were gone and the original color of the car is now completely unrecognizable. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.