KENNER, La. — A good Samaritan helped Kenner Fire Department firefighters rescue several pets from a house fire Tuesday morning.
The house in the 2400 block of Reverend Richard Wilson Drive also serves as a neighborhood daycare.
Jonathan McCray was driving by the home at the time of the fire and saw smoke. McCray stopped and ran toward the house. He says he helped several people escape the fire.
"I am definitely scared of fires; I know I had the opportunity before it got bad," McCray said. "I was just starting, it was maybe two/three minutes in so I know I had time to get in there, by the time I got in there, the smoke started getting real thick."
Kenner Fire Chief Terence Morris says the fire broke out around 11 a.m. in the single-story home.
It is unclear at this time what caused the fire.
McCray saved not only people, but numerous pets from the fire.
"I was grabbing everybody and just pulling them and grabbing them dogs and throwing them out the door, it was a lot," McCray said.
No one in the home was injured but a firefighter was taken to the hospital for heat-related illness.
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