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深夜车库起火！陌生女子紧急操作救了一大家人

There’s not much more terrifying than seeing a house on fire in the middle of the night.

Haily “Moss” Strong was driving home from a friend’s house at around 1 a.m. when she saw just that—flames leaping up from the garage(车库) of a home. She stopped her car and jumped out, rushing towards the front door.

The rest of the house was dark as Haily approached, and she feared the residents inside didn’t know their garage was on fire. A video doorbell recorded the terrified look on her face as she frantically knocked on the door while speaking into the camera. “You guys, your garage is on fire,” she tells the strangers inside.

Josh Ellis and Brittany Downing were in their bedroom, right on the other side of the wall from the garage. Their smoke detectors(探测器) were not going off, and they had no idea how dangerous they were. When they saw Haily at their front door, they immediately got up and started evacuating their nine children, who were all sleeping in their beds.

Watching the video later, Haily says she can see the fear and confusion on her face and remembers how worried she was. “I didn’t know how many people were in the house, let alone there were that many kids,” she said. “I can see that I’m scared. I don’t remember feeling as scared as I look in the video. I just remember thinking I got to get these people out of here. I’ve got to get them across the street.”

A week after the rescue, Haily got to meet the family whose lives she saved. They couldn’t be more grateful that a total stranger went out of her way to warn them about a situation that could have quickly turned deadly.

“That’s an angel,” Josh said about Haily. “She stayed and she saved our family.”