Good Samaritans rescued three people from a house fire in Bloomfield on Tuesday.

A retired fire chief, an off-duty firefighter, and an off-duty Hartford police lieutenant combine to pull a couple from a burning home.

The daring rescue happened on Cottage Grove Road.

The Plainville firefighter says if he and the other Good Samaritans weren’t there, he’s confident this would have been a fatal fire.

He’s not trying to toot his own horn when he says that.

He says crews arrived four minutes after everyone was out and pitted against a fire that was raging, that just wouldn’t have been enough time.

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