Fire Captain James Jiron was attending a family function at a church in Woodstock, Va. when he stepped outside and saw smoke coming from the rear of a two-story duplex at 214 Dingledine Street at approximately 3:15 p.m.
He walked over to the duplex and found an attached shed well involved with fire and smoke starting to extend inside the unit.
Jiron then went to the front of the unit and kicked in the front door and started shouting "fire department, is anyone here?"
Smoke was banking halfway down on the first floor. Without personal protective gear or breathing apparatus, Jiron searched the first floor and located an adult male sleeping on a couch and awoke him and got him safely out of the structure.
He then found a teenaged male asleep upstairs, who he awoke him before escorting him outside.
By that time, the Woodstock Fire Department was on the scene and had begun extinguishing the fire.
Officials are still investigating the cause of the fire.
