A Georgia police officer rescued two people from a burning home over the weekend.
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Mounted Patrol Officer Robert Whitfield was on his way into work just before 7 p.m. on Saturday when he noticed the house on fire in the 1400 block of Old Grove Point Road, according to WTOC-TV.
"I noticed the smoke was coming from a house. I knew I had to turn around," Whitfield told the news station. "I was there a minute after someone made that call."
The officer went inside the smoke-filled residence and led a 70-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman out to safety.
“With that fire I was just thinking the whole time, ok, I can't think I just got to get in there and get these people out," Whitfield said.
He said that the woman inside the home, Monica Snowden, kept screaming that she needed to find her father.
“I grabbed his arm and told him he needed to come with me," Whitfield said. "He told me his was trying to put the fire out. I said, ‘sir, I am an officer and you are coming with me.’ I basically dragged him out of the house."
Although the house was destroyed by the fire, no one was injured.
Officials said that they believe lighting is to blame for the fire but the official cause is under investigation.
