 Green was awoken some time after midnight by the sound of the home 's built @-@ in fire alarm system . She initially assumed that the sound was a false alarm caused by her dogs triggering the burglar alarm , but when she tried to shut off the alarm at the control panel in her bedroom and it continued sounding , she opened her bedroom door and found smoke in the hallway . She exited the house using a deck that connected to her first @-@ floor bedroom . While standing on the deck , she heard her son Tim on the home 's intercom system , calling to ask her what he should do . " He used to be my thirteen @-@ year @-@ old " , Green explained to police , and said that she had told him to stay in the house and wait for firefighters to rescue him . She had then knocked on a neighbor 's door to ask them to call 9 @-@ 1 @-@ 1 . When she returned to the house , she found Kate , who had climbed through her second @-@ floor bedroom window , on the roof of the home 's garage . Green called to Kate to jump , and Kate landed safely on the ground in front of Green . 
