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RIDLEY PARK, Pa. (FOX 29) - Flames tore through a Delaware County home Wednesday. Now, one of the police officers that helped rescue two people inside is talking. While some may call him a hero, he says he was just doing his job.
Dramatic cell phone video shot by Jeff Shick captured the flames shooting from a large home right next to his on the 100 block of West Ridley Avenue in Ridley Park wednesday afternoon.
"You can see from the video, just flames engulfed the front door," he told FOX 29.
The only way out was a third-floor fire escape. Ridley Park Police Officer Mike Hanly was one of the first on the scene.
"I just for some reason went out back. I saw a younger lady coming down the fire escape. She said my parents are up there. I just went up the fire escape and it ended up to a window this big," Officer Hanly explained.
Hanly says he was able to pull the woman out and fellow officers helped her down. He then went back in for the another man who cannot walk and was badly burned.
Minutes after everyone was out, portions of the roof started to collapse into the more than century-old home.
Hanly is also a volunteer firefighter and comes from a long line of police officers and firefighters so he says it's just in his blood.