While shoveling his sidewalk along Allegheny Avenue in Emporium, Andrew Zimmer saw smoke coming from a house just a few doors down from his home.

"Some of us neighbors got together, when a woman came running out with a little kid screaming, 'there was someone else in there'," Zimmer recalls.

That person still inside was a bedridden woman in her 30's who was on a ventilator and unable to get out on her own.

So Zimmer and the other neighbors took turns one by one going inside the house to try to find the woman. Finally, as time was running out, Zimmer decided to go in a different direction when he got inside the house, and that was when he saw something shiny through the smoke.

"I see a glimmer of the hospital bed wheel. I honed in on that, crawled over, then reached up and felt her leg," said Zimmer.

From there, he picked her up and got out of the house where she was cared for by emergency responders; as of Friday, she is listed in stable condition.

Police and firefighters are calling Zimmer a hero for his bravery, but he doesn't want any title attached to his name.

"Well the other neighbors were trying too, I just got lucky and found her," he said.

When asked if he even had time to think about what he was doing, he said "no",  in fact he says he didn't realize what was happening until his third trip in the house, but by that time the task was set to rescue the woman.

After it was all said and done, Zimmer walked across Allegheny Ave, caught his breath and went inside where he laid low the rest of the day.

"After I knew everyone was out of the house, there was nothing else for me to see," he added.