'We could be dead if it wasn't for Luanne,' Mary Stanley said. 'She was our saving grace, a little angel right at the moment that we needed her.'
affiliate KDVR that she, her husband and their infant son"could be dead" if not for an Amazon delivery driver identified only as"Luanne" apparently deciding to risk life and limb to deliver a bicycle pump amid the inferno in Superior, Colorado. Stanley explained that the family car was out of commission due to a failed battery, leading to her husband relying on a bike for transportation instead and ordering the pump from Amazon.
"We woke up from a nap with our 4-month-old son and we smell smoke in the air," Stanley told KDVR."We were like, 'What is that?' We go outside, we see flames over the hill. We were like,"We need to leave now.' We gathered the things that we could ... my husband tried to run to the neighbors. No one was home and we had no idea how we were gonna get out."
"Right then, an Amazon driver showed up to drop off the bike pump," she added."She came out the door and was like, 'You guys need help?' ... I believe that we would have died if she hadn't been there ... We could be dead if it wasn't for Luanne. That's the driver's name, her name is Luanne. She was our saving grace, a little angel right at the moment that we needed her.
In her van, the Amazon employee drove the family to a nearby community center. Stanley said they were then picked up by a friend and taken to the home of Stanley's mother-in-law, who was out of town. The family's next move is uncertain, given that they later received"aerial confirmation" of their home being destroyed in the fire.
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