Tyrone resident Lisa Sprankle, a volunteer at Neptune Fire Station in Tyrone,  is often on the scene of accidents to help direct traffic and keep people safe.

But in 1993, long before she became a fire police volunteer, Sprankle found herself in just the right place at the right time and rescued a three-year-old boy from a house fire.

The experience inspired her to get involved with the Fire Police.

Sprankle was living in Fort Jackson, South Carolina because her husband at the time was stationed at the Fort Jackson Army Base.

Sprankle learned that the house next door was on fire when her neighbor, Darlene Llano, the three-year-old boys’ adoptive mom, came bursting into Sprankle’s house, hysterical about the fire.

The neighbor said her son was inside the burning house but she didn’t know where.

Sprankle ran into the neighbor’s burning house without hesitation.

“I wasn’t scared of being hurt, the adrenaline of finding and saving the boy was taking over my body,” Sprankle said

She found the boy under the kitchen table in the same room as the bulk of the flames.

When Sprankle found him she grabbed a large blanket and put it over the boy so he didn’t inhale more smoke.

When the firefighters arrived they thanked Sprankle for her quick thinking and help.

Thanks to Spankle, no one was injured in the blaze, and Nathan’s mom was very thankful.

Unfortunately, Sprankle lost touch with the family when her husband was transferred out of Fort Jackson, but she said that the experience inspired her to begin her volunteer work with the fire department.

She and her husband Gary Sprankle have both served the Neptune Fire Department over the years.