Deputies save woman from trailer fire
SAN MATEO COUNTY >> Three San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office deputies are being hailed as heroes after they helped rescue a woman from a burning trailer late Sunday.
In a news release Monday, the sheriff’s office said the trio was dispatched to the 3400 block of East Bay- shore Road about 10:20 p.m. for a report of an explosion inside a trailer. The deputies arrived to find the structure engulfed in flames, its windows blown out.
A crowd that had started to form around the trailer was escorted to safety by Deputy James Brown.
Deputies Carryn Barker and Daniel Contreras ran into the structure after multiple people in the crowd yelled that a woman
in her 50s was possibly still inside. She was pulled to safety and taken to a hospital, where she is being treated for injuries that are not considered lifethreatening, according to the sheriff’s office.
Barker and Contreras were also taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
The sheriff’s office said the woman’s dog was killed in the blaze.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
“What we do know,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post, “is that good teamwork including fire personnel, medics, three deputies and her neighbors helped deliver a happier ending to what could have been a tragic story.”