NEW RIVER, Ariz. — A woman is in serious condition after being pulled out of a camper that was on fire, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said.
Neighbors pulled the woman in her 60s from the burning trailer before deputies responded to the scene in New River, MCSO said. The woman was transported by air to a local burn center in serious condition.
Doug Sarrett, one of the victim's neighbors who helped pull her out, said it didn't look like much of a fire when he first saw smoke.
"She was crying and you know, 'Get me out! Get me out,'" he said.
Sarrett was just one of the multiple people who stepped in to help get the victim out of the burning camper.
"I couldn't get to her and I went back outside and I tried two more times, and my daughter-in-law tried and we could still hear her crying," Sarrett said.
With the door locked, it took a couple tries to get into the home with hope it wasn't too late. The victim had been living in the mobile home, for months, caring for an elderly woman next door.
"As soon as I opened the door, it was just completely full of smoke,"Sarrett said. "[My friend Randy] got back in there, got back into the bedroom, got ahold of her, and drug her near the front. Then the three of us managed to get her on out through the door."
They also broke the window on her car to move it out of the way, so they could get into the burning trailer.
"Soon as I open the door it was full of smoke, I could hear her crying," he said.
Things were falling off the ceiling and flames could be seen on the ceiling and on the floor, Sarrett said.
"I'm not sure I want to stay in a camp trailer anymore," Sarrett said.
It is not known at this time how the fire started, deputies said. Detectives are on the scene and are investigating the cause.
Authorities recommended everyone check to make sure they had a working smoke detector in their home and/or travel trailer.
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