Money is pouring in to pay for the funeral of a nine-year-old US boy who died after he saved six relatives in a nighttime fire in the family's mobile home.
The boy, Tyler Doohan, was called a hero by firefighters after the early Monday morning fire raged through the trailer park home in Penfield, New York.
"He saved six people. They all would have died if he hadn't woken up," Chris Ebmeyer, chief of the volunteer fire company, was quoted as saying by MSNBC on Wednesday.
Tyler was awakened by the fire and raced to other family members - four adults and children aged four and six - to rouse them.
Then he ran back in trying to save his 57-year-old grandfather.
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Their bodies were found near each other.
Tyler's uncle also died in the fire.
Nine people had been living in the 4-by-18-metre trailer, where Tyler had been allowed to spend the night because the next day was a school holiday, his mother, Crystal Vrooman, said.
"I'm so thankful that he was with people he loved," Vrooman told CNN between sobs.
"He didn't cross alone.
"I just want him back."
The photo on the Youcaring.com fundraising site shows a grinning Tyler wearing face paint and what appears to be a Halloween costume.
The fund had reached $US17,564 ($A20,000.00) by Wednesday.
