A 5-year-old boy is being credited with saving 13 people from a Chicago house fire.

Residents say Jayden Espinosa awoke to smoke and flames just before 4 a.m. Saturday and alerted others to the danger.

Seven adults and six children who lived in the 2 1/2-story brick home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood were left homeless. No injuries were reported.

Nicole Peeples says that without the boy�s warning, �I don�t think we would have survived.�

Peeples says she smelled no smoke and �the fire alarms never went off. I�m so glad he was there.�

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the fire. Residents say the home was destroyed.

(AP)