BELLEVUE, Pa. — A quick-thinking couple is being credited with helping save several people’s lives after a fire ripped through a Bellevue apartment building Tuesday night.
Susie Ross told Channel 11 News that she and her boyfriend noticed flames at an apartment building on Lincoln Avenue about 7 p.m.
“We were driving down across the bridge and my boyfriend said, ‘Look. There’s a fire on the third-floor porch,’” Ross said. “It was all kinds of smokey, so he ran inside the building and told the people to come out while I called 911.”
Ross said her boyfriend went door-to-door warning everyone inside to get out before the flames spread.
Neighbors told Channel 11’s Brittny McGraw that they were worried the blaze would spread.
“We heard the sirens, so we came around the bend and saw everything engulfed in smoke,” neighbor Elizabeth Montelaro said.
It took firefighters several hours to get the blaze under control, and they were called back Wednesday morning when some flames rekindled.
Several firefighters were treated at the scene Tuesday night for heat exhaustion. Other than that, no injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
WPXI
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