A watchful neighbor saved the lives of a young couple and their 1-year-old son early Sunday morning in the unincorporated town of Newark in northern Kearney County. Gary Lea, 31, his wife Whitney, 28, and their son were sleeping inside their two-story house at 42 Newark St. around 6 a.m. when their neighbor, Pete Patsios, barged in yelling. Lea had his alarm set for 6:30 a.m., and at first thought Patsios was an intruder. “He came running into the entryway of the house. I couldn’t make out what he was saying, so I just started running at him. He was trying to scream, ‘I’m your neighbor. There’s a fire,’” Lea said. Lea saw the flames coming from the corner of the house, went upstairs to get his son from his crib and to wake up his wife. “I just yanked him out of his crib,” Lea said.