VIDEO: A Trumbull man is being called an “angel,” after he alerted a sleeping couple to a fire on their property.
Firefighters responded to Merrill Road around 6:50 a.m. Friday after multiple 911 calls for a shed fire that wasn’t far from the adjacent house.
Jake Walsh made the first call. Walsh told News 12 he was driving home from the gym when he smelled a campfire.
“I started looking around, and out of my right window, I saw a fire starting to happen, so I went over there, checked it out, and it was starting to get bad when I got over there,” Walsh recalled. “I went and knocked on the door and got them out of the house, then called 911, tried to get them on scene as fast as possible.” The shed was fully engulfed when crews arrived, and flames had spread to the home, according to Trumbull Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Director Megan Murphy.