VIDEO: Several people came to the rescue after a house caught fire in Peoria on Tuesday.
"Hello, hello. Your house is on fire; get outside!” says Andrea Marquez, who was driving by.
Marquez jumped out of her vehicle after seeing a cloud of smoke coming from a home near 99th and Olive avenues. She was on her way to drop her boys off at school.
“Then a gentleman came running out of the side gate there, which he is the owner of the house, the dad. He was just yelling frantically like, ‘my child is in there, my daughter is in there,’” says Marquez.
Marquez says the man had been burned. She quickly took action, knowing every second counts. “He was just yelling like, ‘come outside, come outside.’ So then, I immediately just ran right up into the walkway right here. When you walk in, she was just to the right sleeping and I scooped her up and we came out,” says Marquez.