A good Samaritan’s alert may have saved the lives of a Boiling Springs family with a disabled son.

The woman woke a sleeping man and called 911 as a shed fire was about to spread to the mobile home.

Sarah Lee was driving on Windy Wood Road when she saw a shed burning next to a doublewide.

She quickly pulled in and started honking her truck’s horn.

Within minutes a man who had been sleeping inside came out to see what the noise was.

Lee pointed toward the burning shed.

The flames were about to spread to the home and was melting plastic trim on the family’s truck.

The man quickly moved his truck as the fire spread to a tall pine and sent embers into the air.

The county fire service from Boiling Springs got there quickly and cooled the mobile home and put out the shed fire.

“Goodness, I still have goose bumps,” Lee said. “I was definitely in the right place at the right time.”

Lee said the mother of the family had a quadriplegic son inside.

“He really could have died if the home caught fire,” Lee said.

Without Lee’s alert, this fire could have been deadly.

Paul Kirby is editor and publisher of the Lexington Ledger.