Victoria Martin is out of the hospital after she was caught in a fire in her Pleasant Ridge apartment. Thursday she and her son personally thanked to the Cincinnati firefighters who likely saved her life.
“I wanted to tell them, ‘God bless you,’" Martin told FOX19 NOW after meeting with the first responders. “'If it wasn’t for you all, I wouldn’t be here, because that was an awful fire.'”
“They put her life on the line,” Martin’s son, Antonio said, “and I really, really thank them.”
The blaze broke out around 2 a.m. Tuesday. Martin says she’d forgotten to turn her stove off after making some french fries.
“I was screaming my head off — ‘Help!’” she recalled. “That is never anything I want to go through again.”
Cincinnati Fire Department Firefighter Lasha Cauthen was among those who responded to the scene.