HUDSON, N.H. (AP) – Three workmen turned into rescuers when a nearby home caught fire and they saved three women from the flames.
Jerry Kerr, Steve Nadeau and Steve Earner were remodeling a home when they noticed the fire Monday morning.
Earner got in through a window, while Kerr and Nadeau began spraying the flames with two garden hoses.
“I was the stuntman. I kicked in the window,” Earner said.
Inside he heard screaming from the homeowner, 76-year-old Theresa Bernard.
“There was so much smoke, I was gagging and I was nervous because I couldn’t breathe,” Earner said.
Earner lowered Bernard out the window.
Kerr then entered the home through a window after the flames died down in the front and kicked the front door open, he said.
“You couldn’t see six or seven feet in front of you,” Kerr said.
Inside, Kerr helped escort out Priscilla Corcoran, another one of the home’s occupants who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, and caretaker Malissa DiMarco of Area Agency of Greater Nashua.
Officials believe the fire might have started from a discarded cigarette.
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