Shanya Borenstein and her children were eating dinner Thursday evening when her neighbor’s children rang her doorbell and said their mother needed water because their house was on fire.
Borenstein grabbed her fire extinguisher, told all the children to stay in the house and ran to 1212 S. Kimbark St., where Sarah Koeppen was putting wet blankets on a son’s burning bed.
The women left the house and called 911. From across the street, Borenstein could see flames through the bedroom window, she said.
The Longmont Fire Department was called at 5:11 p.m. and arrived at 5:15 p.m., according to assistant fire chief Dan Higgins. Smoke was pouring through the window and the eaves when firefighters got to the house, he said. Firefighters extinguished the fire, which was confined to a bed in the home’s southwest bedroom, just a couple of minutes after they got there, Higgins said.
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