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An off-duty RCMP member is being called a hero after rescuing three people from a home that caught fire Sunday in New Westminster.

Shortly after midnight, David Francoeur noticed flames shooting out of his neighbour's house while he was working on his car and called 911.

When he saw a woman trapped on the home's upper floor, he rushed to get a ladder and managed to coax her to climb down.

"He's a hero. If he didn't save her, she would have been in the house, she would have died," said Howard Gollinger, a man who lives in the basement of the home.

Gollinger was in a separate shed when the fire broke out. He got outside safely after realizing there was trouble when the lights went out.

But the woman's elderly parents, who live on the main floor of the house, were seemingly unaware of the fire happening upstairs. Francoeur pulled the two from the home just as firefighters were arriving.

Although Francoeur is being praised for his actions, he doesn't think he should be called a hero.

"That's overkill; it's just a reaction. I am sure you would have done the same," Francoeur told CTV News.

Everyone living in the house got out, but two small dogs belonging to the woman who was stuck on the top floor were killed.

Francoeur said saving the woman was difficult because she didn't want to leave the animals.

"It was a struggle; she didn't want to come down," he said. "She was trying to go back inside the house for her pets."

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the blaze they think began on the top floor.

"It looks as though it actually started in either the bathroom or a bedroom area," Assistant Fire Chief Sam Cirillo said.

jfarsang wrote:Here's the article in case it gets lost in the CTV archives.

That's quite the JDM dedication. Working at all hours of the wee night !