Two deputies from the sheriff’s Lancaster Station were being credited with saving a panicked “elderly woman” as flames closed in on her Stevenson Ranch home a day after the massive Sage Fire broke out.
Deputies Shane Dobra and Alex Smith responded to the area to assist with evacuations on Sunday and about 6 a.m. a resident told them a house in the 25000 block of Dogwood Court was on fire, according to Lancaster Station Deputy Kit Gruppie.
They located the home that had flames spreading across its front and heading toward the front door.
They knocked, but no one answered, Gruppie said.
“Finally, an elderly woman answered the door and was shocked to hear her house was on fire,” according to Gruppie.
Dobra and Smith escorted the woman from the home, but she suddenly ran back inside, so the deputies ran into the burning structure and found the woman in a back bedroom, where she had become “overcome with panic and fell to the floor.”
“The deputies helped her off the floor, and escorted her outside,” Gruppie said, adding that the woman was treated for smoke inhalation and a minor knee injury.
The woman’s specific age was not disclosed.
The Sage Fire, which was reported about 12:05 p.m. Saturday, has burned 1,110 acres west of Santa Clarita and is 85 percent contained. Three firefighters have been injured battling the blaze, which has damaged at least one building.
–City News Service