A special family deserves a special place

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, January, 2007 | by DAN GERINGER

BARBARA REVERE'S "sixth sense" had never failed to warn her of danger, so when it told her on Dec. 5 that her quadriplegic son, Trevor, was in trouble, "I knew I had to go home, and I had to go home now," she remembers. As soon as she arrived at her Civil War-era Germantown house on Woodlawn Street near Morton, she saw smoke pouring from a second-floor window.

Trevor, 18, was in his first-floor bedroom, sleeping off a late night of video games - his reward for graduating from Widener Memorial High School. Revere ran inside. The smoke had traveled down through the walls, filled the first-floor kitchen and was streaming toward the bedroom where Trevor slept. Revere called 911. She was on the verge of panic, wondering how she was going to carry her fully grown son to safety by...