A pair of brave strangers dragged a pensioner away from a burning house - with one of them using his flip flops to extinguish the flames on the man's clothes.
Jason Holden was walking past the property in Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, at around 6.30pm when he spotted plumes of smoke and realised something was wrong.
Another passerby, Sean Flahey, also stopped when he saw the commotion. The courageous duo broke through the gate to the house and found a man in his 70s who had collapsed at the back door.
Together they bravely dragged him away from the growing blaze and out into a nearby alleyway, the Manchester Evening News reports.
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