Toddler dead; grandparents critical after house fire

A two-alarm fire in San Bruno Friday morning killed a toddler and critically injured his grandparents. There may have been more deaths or injuries had it not been for the heroics of nearby construction workers who sprang into action.

The fire broke out on the second floor hallway of a home on Lake Drive at 8:45 a.m. The toddler and two adults who were taken to the hospital were in the back bedroom. The workers were next door at a house that is under construction. They rescued one person, but weren't able to reach the toddler. "We saw the house was on fire and there was a person in the window, trying to, he was calling the emergency number," Alvaro Gomez said.

Gomez waswith other workers next door at a house that was under construction when the fire started. Firefighters had yet to arrive, so the workers took matters into their own hands. They attempted to rescue the person in the second floor bedroom. "We ran and got a ladder and got him down and he said there was a child in the backroom, so we ran to the back and broke a few windows trying to get in, but it was so dark with heavy smoke, so we couldn't get in," he said.

Gomez told us the second floor hallway was engulfed in flames and that the child was in a back bedroom, which opened up into the hallway. "He told us there was a two-year-old. We just went crazy trying