TYLER (KYTX) – Two Good Samaritans may have saved a man’s life after an early morning apartment fire.

It happened at the William Booth Garden Apartments on Golden Road in Tyler around 7 a.m. Sunday.

Sammy Edgar was one of the Good Samaritans. He has lived at the apartment complex for almost 6 years. 

Edgar said he’d never seen anything as frightening as what he saw Sunday morning.

“I heard a man holler,” he said. “And I looked out the window and I could see the blaze.”

The blaze was in the building right across from Edgar’s home. He saw his neighbor on fire screaming for help.

“I couldn’t let the man burn up,” Edgar said. “I opened the door and [the fire came] out at me, but I didn’t get burned. I grabbed him right here by the arms. Pulled him out.”

But Edgar wasn’t the only person who sprang into action. Investigators say someone driving by the complex noticed the smoke, called 911 and then also ran to help.

Edgar grabbed a water hose to battle the fire himself while the other Good Samaritan worked to put out the victim’s clothes that were on fire.

“I just want him to be alright,” said Edgar.

Emergency crews arrived and quickly contained the fire to just the one apartment and rushed the man burned to a Dallas hospital.

Although some people are calling Edgar and the other Good Samaritan heroes, he believes he was just doing the right thing.

“If anybody can help somebody, I think they ought to,” Edgar said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but firefighters believe it began in the living room.

No word yet on the condition of the man pulled from the home.