Last week, Elizabeth Soffe celebrated her Survival Day. It’s a family tradition now, marking the day nine years ago when, as a six-month-old baby, she survived a devastating fire in her cot that left her with burns all over her body.
She and parents Sinead and Liam commemorated the occasion with afternoon tea. “We have a celebration for it every year, because that’s the day that she survived,” says dad Liam.
Brave Elizabeth was nominated for the Pride of Britain Child of Courage award after raising £202,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where staff battled to save her life after the fire left her with third-degree burns over 60 percent of her little body.
