Hero Ian Darlington has been nominated for a bravery award after he rescued a teenager from a house fire.
Ian, 30, managed to climb onto a roof and smash a double glazed window to rescue the young man from the blazing building in Knutton in May.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service say he has now been nominated for a bravery award for his quick-thinking actions.
Ian was driving past the house with a colleague when he saw smoke coming out of the house.
When he realised there was someone in the upstairs bedroom, he climbed onto the roof of a van and then onto a roof outside the window, before smashing it with a hammer.
He said: “It took two or three hits with the hammer to smash the window because it was double glazed, and then I cleared the glass from around the window.
“As soon as I smashed the window the smoke began to billow out and it was stinging my eyes. I didn’t know what I was going to find and you could only see about a foot into the room because of all the smoke, but then a pair of arms just came out of the window.
“I didn’t give what I did much thought, I just did it. I’d like to think someone would do the same to help me in a similar situation.
“A fireman told me there was a good chance it could have been a fatal fire if it had been left any longer.”