Ken Andreen saw flames billowing out of the roof and second-story window while working his job for “Mom’s Meals”, a homemade meal delivery service.
Neighbor Angela Spynda yelled to Andreen from her front door, letting him know that she had called 9-1-1. Andreen asked if there was anyone in the burning house. After hearing ‘Yes,’ the delivery driver sprinted to the front door, ignoring Spynda’s plea to wait for emergency workers to arrive.
In a doorbell video, Andreen can be heard knocking on the open door and shouting “Hello!” After hearing a response, he quickly approached a man who had been sleeping on the couch. Andreen then picked the man up and threw him over his shoulder to carry him outside.
45-year-old Carsten Molt was the fortunate homeowner.
Firefighters said that if it weren’t for Andreen rushing into the house, the outcome for Molt would have been completely different.
Suffering only from a sore throat, Molt was grateful for Andreen’s heroic actions. Saying he just wanted to thank Molt at some point and meet him.
A neighbor said Andreen was in the burning house for a “good two or three minutes.” Andreen said that “I wasn’t thinking about myself at all. I was thinking about saving the person that was in there.”
“Good Samaritan. I didn’t think we had too many of them out there anymore, but we do,” Spynda told WATE News. “He was like an angel.”
Andreen later told WPXI News…. “I had to do what I had to do. God put me in right place at the right time.”
Shrugging off the Good Samaritan comment, Andreen doesn’t believe that he’s a hero saying – “It’s just something [he] had to do.”