Fire Rescue News - RIO GRANDE FIREFIGHTER RESCUES WOMAN FROM BURNING HOME
WILDWOOD -- A local firefighter is being hailed as a hero after saving a woman from a fast moving house fire Sunday night.
Mike Barth, a firefighter from Rio Grande, was off duty and driving home when he came across a duplex on the 400 block of West Taylor Avenue where a fire broke out around 7:30pm. While the other occupants from the second floor were able to make it out safely, Barth stepped in to help a woman on the first floor where the flames had started.
"I looked over and there was smoke coming out of the house and she was on the porch in shock. And I just did what anybody would do and try to help. My training kicked in and it just overtook me," says Barth.
The fire was brought under control in about twenty minutes, but the duplex has since been deemed uninhabitable.
