Neighbors Save Disabled Charlotte Woman Trapped Inside Burning Apartment

HARLOTTE — Several neighbors rushed into a burning apartment to save a disabled Charlotte woman who was trapped inside her bedroom.  It happened Tuesday night at Scarlet Point Apartments on Brooktree Drive.
One of the neighbors shot video on his cell phone as he and several others rushed into the apartment.  A 7-year-old girl first saw the smoke and ran to tell her father about the fire.

“I was thinking maybe there was a fire going on,” says 7-year-old Zoey Robinson.

“I said, look, we got to go.  We gotta get out quick, if not, we’re all gonna die in here,” says Marion Shepherd, one of the neighbors who saved the woman.

The neighbors got the woman into her wheelchair and out of the burning apartment safely.  No one was hurt.
Charlotte Fire says that no one should ever go into a burning building.  Officials say the fire started because of unattended food on the stove.