Teacher Rescues 4 in Fire

By Jon Lewis / WSB News

(WSB Radio) A teacher is being credited with rescuing four women from a huge fire in Alpharetta.

Officer Jennifer Howard with Alpharetta's Police Department tells WSB a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon at a duplex-type home in the Seasons Subdivision on Memories Drive, off Rucker Road. Steve Kehoe, a teacher, arrived in the knick of time.

"The gentleman came home who lives there in the summertime with his mother, who is 80-years-old, and found the house was full of flames. She was in the shower and didn't know. He got her out, and from what I understand, he went next door and helped some other folks out, one of whom was in a wheelchair, and her mother also," said Howard.

Howard says although the building was badly damaged, it could've been a whole lot worse.

"I don't know what the situation was with their smoke detectors; but certainly - if that first unit where the fire started - if she didn't have a working smoke detector and couldn't go alert people, you know, who knows what she would've come out of the shower and found," said Howard.

"I think he could be conceived as a hero, and I hope that anyone would do that too. If you find a situation, I hope you'd help people get out of the building and try as help as many people as you can. I think he I guess, exemplifies what we hope most people are," said Howard.

Besides Alpharetta, firefighters from Milton and Roswell helped put out the blaze.

No one was injured. The cause is still under investigation.