A Keeseville man carried a partially paralyzed woman out of their burning apartment building and then knocked on the remaining two apartment doors, alerting the other tenants to the blaze.
"(Lee Spoor) threw me over his shoulder," Niki Barcomb said. "He carried me out of my room, out the door, onto the deck.
"He's a huge hero."
Spoor and his 6-year-old son; Barcomb and Tom Dellow; and tenants of a third apartment were displaced Sunday night by the fire that destroyed their apartment house and most of their possessions.
Nine adults and three children were left homeless by the blaze at 22 Church St.
Spoor had smelled something burning shortly before 11 p.m. and began looking out his windows to see if someone had a campfire going, he said.