A woman was pulled from a burning home early Wednesday in Carbon County.
Neighbors to police officers in Jim Thorpe said Corine Miller is alive today thanks to some quick thinking and quick action by a woman who lived nearby.
The sight of emergency lights could be seen along a snow covered road in Jim Thorpe around 3:30 a.m. as firefighters tried for hours to put out a blaze at a double-block home along South Avenue.
"Soon as they got it knocked down the wind would come back down here. The wind would come back through and it would just roar back up again," said neighbor Rob Hunsicker.
Firefighters said a husband and wife lived on the left side of the double-block home. They weren't hurt.
On the right were Miller and three house guests. The guests escaped unharmed but Miller, who neighbors call Corrie, wasn't so lucky.
Friends said the woman in her sixties is disabled and almost didn't make it out of her burning home.
Neighbor Paulette Haupt came running over and carried Miller off of the porch to safety.
"She was on fire. So I grabbed some snow to put it out," Haupt recounted.
"I've never seen anything like that before and it is a sight that kind of takes you away a little bit. Looking at that. Seeing something like that,' Jim Thorpe Police Officer Lee Marzen said of Haupt's efforts.
Witnesses said after saving Miller Haupt ran back to the burning home and saved the woman's service dog.
Soon after the house collapsed and flames started to spread.
Investigators said it wasn't just the people who lived in the double-block home who were forced out but also their neighbors. Fire officials said the neighboring house had so much smoke, water and fire damage upstairs that the couple who lived there can't go back.
The fire victims are being helped by the American Red Cross.
Many were grateful to crews and Haupt for saving someone she said she barely knew.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation in Carbon County.
Neighbors to police officers in Jim Thorpe said Corine Miller is alive today thanks to some quick thinking and quick action by a woman who lived nearby.
The sight of emergency lights could be seen along a snow covered road in Jim Thorpe around 3:30 a.m. as firefighters tried for hours to put out a blaze at a double-block home along South Avenue.
"Soon as they got it knocked down the wind would come back down here. The wind would come back through and it would just roar back up again," said neighbor Rob Hunsicker.
Firefighters said a husband and wife lived on the left side of the double-block home. They weren't hurt.
On the right were Miller and three house guests. The guests escaped unharmed but Miller, who neighbors call Corrie, wasn't so lucky.
Friends said the woman in her sixties is disabled and almost didn't make it out of her burning home.
Neighbor Paulette Haupt came running over and carried Miller off of the porch to safety.
"She was on fire. So I grabbed some snow to put it out," Haupt recounted.
"I've never seen anything like that before and it is a sight that kind of takes you away a little bit. Looking at that. Seeing something like that,' Jim Thorpe Police Officer Lee Marzen said of Haupt's efforts.
Witnesses said after saving Miller Haupt ran back to the burning home and saved the woman's service dog.
Soon after the house collapsed and flames started to spread.
Investigators said it wasn't just the people who lived in the double-block home who were forced out but also their neighbors. Fire officials said the neighboring house had so much smoke, water and fire damage upstairs that the couple who lived there can't go back.
The fire victims are being helped by the American Red Cross.
Many were grateful to crews and Haupt for saving someone she said she barely knew.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation in Carbon County.
