A Texas woman couldn’t leave a homeless man on the street and let him sleep in her house because it was too cold outside.
When she woke up in the middle of the night, the woman was shocked. She is 66 years old and lives with her two grandchildren in a house in the suburbs of Houston.
The man woke up in the middle of the night after hearing noises. According to Smith, the homeless man’s name, he heard banging. He decided not to wake the old woman or her grandchildren and went to see what was happening. The man assumed that someone was trying to break into the house, but he quickly realized that this assumption was wrong. As he approached the woman’s door, the homeless man heard a cracking sound and the smell of smoke.
The reaction was immediate. The entire house was filled with smoke, caused by a fire in the attic.
The old woman is still in bed when the ceiling begins to collapse on her. Smith rushes to her, pulls her out of bed, and carries her outside. The homeless man remembers that the children are still inside the burning house.
At great risk to his life, he runs through the smoke to save the girls from the flames. He finds them, takes them under his arms, and jumps out the front door. Fortunately, they are all unharmed. The house where the woman had lived for 40 years was now in flames, but everyone was still alive.