"You hope it doesn't happen to you," says Alex Castenon. "You say it's never going to happen to you."
But it can and it did to the Castenon family.
As illegal fireworks lit up the Fresno County sky on Saturday, one landed on the home adjacent to Castenon's parents near Chestnut and Church.
"It started in the side of neighbor to us," he said. "It started from there and it just carried over."
Castenon's parents had taken sleeping medication like they always do and were fast asleep as the flames spread.
A person driving through the area saw the fire and started honking to alert the neighborhood.
Their neighbor awoke and quickly ran over to help.
"They came and knocked and banged on the door and were able to get my parents out safely," Castenon said.