Oskar Johansson spotted a fire at his neighbor's house in Gottne on Tuesday evening and helped the woman with dementia to safety. Rescue services later retrieved the man inside.
Oskar Johansson was heading home from a meeting in Gottne when he noticed smoke that did not match the sunny weather. He followed the smoke and found an old wooden house on fire.
The woman, nearly 80 and living with dementia, stood barefoot in her nightgown at the door with flames only half a meter away. Johansson called emergency services and helped her across glowing coals using her walker.
The man remained inside in a wheelchair on the ground floor. Rescue services arrived with smoke divers and brought him out. Both are doing well given the circumstances, though the house burned down.
