Video: Allison Triarsi's 11 News report

HOUSTON—Two good Samaritans were credited with saving a man from a burning home on Yale Street in northwest Houston Friday night.

The two men were at a nearby bar when they heard the trapped man screaming.

They came running through a field, found the home engulfed in flames, pulled the burglar bars off a window and rescued him.

“We saw the fire and heard the man saying, ‘Help! Help! Help!’” Elton Lewis said. “I’m glad I did save someone’s life.”

Vince Zepeda lives across the street. He knows the man who was trapped in the burning home and watched him barely make it out alive.

“There were two of them coming out, and he was just barely coming himself,” Zepeda said.

Zepeda said the man works in the building in front of the home, which is a furniture resale shop.  He said the man sometimes stays in the back house, which is nothing but rubble now.

The owner was too upset to go on camera, but she said the home was filled with broken furniture. That’s one reason the wood-framed structure went up in flames so quickly.

When the owner arrived Saturday morning, she had no idea her property was gone.