‘Our angel’: Stranger knocks on doors to warn RV park residents of approaching wildfire

Residents say a woman was their "angel" after she braved wildfire smoke to warn RV park of danger and urged them to leave.

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‘Our angel’: Stranger knocks on doors to warn RV park residents of approaching Oklahoma wildfire

Residents say a woman was their ‘angel’ after she braved wildfire smoke to warn an OKC RV park of danger and urge them to leave.

Residents are calling a woman who braved wildfire smoke and ash last week an angel after she made sure people had a chance to evacuate their RV park in Oklahoma City.

Jamie Fisk said she doesn’t see herself as an angel. She works near where a wildfire sparked, and she watched the flames unfold.

“It was so smoky. You could see ashes falling,” Fisk said.

Sister station KOCO reports that for some residents of the Holliday Outt RV Park, a knock on the door from Fisk was the saving grace that got them to evacuate during Thursday’s wildfire.

“For some reason, my heart was telling me to come this way,” Fisk said.

Fisk works up the road and spent Thursday watching firefighters monitor hotspots from Wednesday’s initial fire.

“I watched the police department dropping water all day at my job,” Fisk said.

So, when she saw the flames return to the area, she called 911 and went to get cases of water for the firefighters.

“When I started coming this way, I saw small patches of fire, so I started banging on all the doors, telling them, ‘Fire!’ and laying on my horn and trying to get everyone’s attention because nobody was out here,” Fisk said. “There was another guy who was like, ‘I got to tell my friend.’ He went in another direction banging on doors.”

Residents called her a gift from above.

“Our angel. She doesn’t live in the park. She came in and knocked on our door. Otherwise, we’d have had no idea,” Dale Hibbs, who lives in the RV park, said.

But Fisk said she was just being human.

“I would want somebody to do the same thing for my family and friends. If you can’t tell, trailers burn up really quickly,” Fisk said.

The park’s owners said they are grateful she stepped up and that no one was killed.

“It’s amazing. The Oklahoma Standard is here, and she’s a prime example,” co-owner Rick Garrett said.

Fisk even returned to bring water to the residents as they navigated repairs to their well. Firefighters said they are still investigating what caused the fire, but it has been deemed suspicious.