Good Samaritan Saves Home From Fire

DESERT HOT SPRINGS -Daniel Adelizzi pulled up to this Desert Hot Springs mobile home early Monday morning after he saw the fire.

“The flames were coming up through the roof and part of the back was dropping in just didn’t have time to think about it I guess,” says Adelizzi.

He hopped the fence and pounded on all the doors. The lights were on but no one answered. Adelizzi decided to act, fearing for the people inside.

A neighbor turned on the garden hose. He had 90 percent of the fire out by the time firefighters arrived 20 minutes later.

The family wasn’t home when the fire took place. If they were home it could have been deadly. Someone sleeps just on the other side of this door where most of the damage took place.

He got a big “thank you” from one of the people living in the mobile home after they found scorch marks on their patio and the damage inside.

“Tears came out, tears really came out. But you know what, we’re alive. And the house is still standing. It’s just a little piece in the back it’ll get fixed up,” says Stephanie Palomino who recently moved into her mothers mobile home.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But, Adelizzi thinks it could be electrical.

He rescued the family’s dogs and saved their home. Although he’s uncomfortable being called a hero, the family sure thinks he is.

“I think my neighbors would want me to do it. If my house was on fire I’d really hope someone would try and help me … Like I said it was the kids who made me go through there,” says Adelizzi.