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Published 13:19 03 Jan 2022 GMT
An Amazon delivery driver has been hailed an "angel" after heroically saving a four-month-old boy and his parents from the raging Colorado wildfires.
Over a thousand homes have been torched in what is being called the most destructive blaze in Colorado's history, with over 30,000 residents evacuated as a result of the fast-moving inferno.
Colorado resident Mary Stanley said that she, her husband, and their four-month-old son were napping at their home on Thursday, December 30, when they smelled smoke.
They quickly gathered a few things when they saw flames outside and realized that they had to leave immediately, per Fox News affiliate KDVR.
But when they tried to find their neighbors, the couple realized that they were alone in the neighborhood as everyone else had already evacuated.
That was when Luanne, the Amazon delivery driver, arrived with a bike pump that Mary's husband had ordered a few days earlier.
Noticing their situation, Luanne offered to evacuate the couple and their baby using her delivery van.
"She was actually pretty calm about it, she offered to help and she got us in the van and propped us up against the side and she dropped us off at the nearest community center," Mary told KDVR.
"I believe that we would have died if she hadn't been there. We could be dead if it wasn’t for Luanne," she went on. "She was our saving grace. A little angel right at the moment that we needed her."
In her van, the Amazon employee drove the family to a nearby community center.
Mary said they were then picked up by a friend and taken to the home of her mother-in-law, who was out of town. The family's next move is uncertain, given that they later received "aerial confirmation" of their home being destroyed in the fire.
"We don't know what our plans are next, you know, we just lost our home," Mary added. "We are worried about our neighbors more than our house cause ya know it’s not stuff that makes a home, it’s the people. And we are just glad we got out safe."
