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PREGNANT MOM SAVES WOMAN FROM FIRE

ALBION, Mich. -- Jessica Bates is a very pregnant hero.

The 22-year-old is about to give birth to twin girls any day now. But that didn't stop her from rushing into a burning house to help a paralyzed neighbor in Albion, Mich.

Bates was sitting up late Saturday night when she heard Barbara Wellman, 45, crying for help across the street. Wellman is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair.

"I heard someone say, 'Help me, help me,' and I thought I heard someone say, 'My hair's on fire,' " Bates told The Jackson Citizen Patriot.

She went outside and saw flames through a neighbor’s window. Bates rushed to Wellman's apartment to help her, managing to drag the woman’s wheelchair by the foot pedals to the sidewalk.

She then banged on other people's doors to warn them. Another neighbor, 18-year-old Dion Newton, grabbed a hose and doused the flames before firefighters could arrive.

Bates told the Jackson Citizen Patriot she knew she was taking a chance, but couldn't leave her neighbor in the burning building.

"I don't look at it as being a hero, I just looked at it like helping someone," she said. "I knew it was a risk to myself, but I couldn't leave her."

The cause of the fire is still unknown.