Good Samaritans save elderly woman from house fire in Watsonville

WATSONVILLE, California. (KION-TV) — The Watsonville Fire Department rescued an elderly woman from a house fire Thursday morning.

Watsonville police said they arrived at 49 Blanco Lane at 9:30 a.m. to report a building fire. Two Good Samaritans were helping an elderly woman stuck in the house when the medical service arrived.

The two men were her neighbors but had never met her until today.

“I was coming back because I was driving,” neighbor Miguel Hernandez said. “I saw smoke coming out of the house and I said, ‘Hey, that’s not normal.’ I go to the house, and there is smoke. I kicked down the door and there was an explosion that threw me back. And then at that time the police officer on duty helped me get the lady out of the house.”

Although Miguel Hernandez did not know this woman, he considered it his duty to help.

“Because our human job is to help others,” Hernandez said. “And this, and this is a fire. It can happen to anyone. And I expect someone to help me.”

Close women, such as Violet Gonzalez, are glad that two neighbors were able to save her.

“They know her,” Gonzalez said. “You know, we are our neighbors here. One of them was actually a police officer. So he’s, you know, very glad he was here on time. You know, it was nice to know that he was there to help her.”

It was seen how firefighters put out the fires and find out what could have caused the fire. A fire that caused great damage.

“Very good,” Gonzalez said. “They did a good job.”

As for the condition of the woman when she was rescued…

“Thank God she was conscious when she left,” Hernandez said. “She will be all right. I hope she will be ok. But the most important thing is that she got out alive.

Gonzalez was there when Hernandez and the duty officer pulled the woman out of the fire, checking on her.

“What hurt me the most is that I know she was in pain,” Gonzalez said. “She has very severe back pain and just saw her lying on the floor. It just broke my heart. But knowing that she was conscious, and she was conscious, I talked to her, you know.

The woman was taken to the Santa Clara County Burn Center. Information about her condition has not yet been received.

We checked and at this hour the Watsonville Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire.