An eight-year-old boy from New York, who fully deserves the term hero, died tragically after having rescued six family members from a fire at their trailer home. He went in to save his uncle, who was in a wheelchair after having lost part of his leg, but they did not make it out.

Tyler J. Doohan of East Rochester was staying at the home of his relatives in a nearby town of Penfield on Sunday night when he noticed fire in a single wide trailer. Authorities say the 8-year-old grade-schooler died in the violently spreading home fire while attempting to save a disabled relative inside the house.

By the time that fire-fighters and sheriff deputies were able to respond to the emergency, Tyler had already managed to wake six other people in the small trailer, including two other children aged four and six. Then, fatally, Tyler went back into the inferno to help his grandfather and uncle, who was incapable of escaping the fire alone since he was disabled. "By that time the fire had spread to the back of the trailer," Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer said. Unfortunately they both succumbed to heat and smoke and died inside the trailer.

Their bodies were found together in a back bedroom. "It makes me very proud, it really does, but I just want him back," Tyler's sorrowful mom Crystal Vrooman told CNN affiliate WHAM. She later said that the young hero dodged away from his aunt outside and went back to try and save his disabled uncle and grandfather.

"All I could think about is how he couldn't breathe," Vrooman told WHAMM and then she added that she was so grateful that he went with people that he loved and he didn't go alone. Ebmeyer said the trailer did not have a working smoke detector. If it had one, the alarm could have easily woken everyone in time to retreat.