get out of her ambulance and wheeled her up this driveway on chloe court. nurse tamara followed. eventually they ran into david hawks, paradise s fire chief. there s a dog door here one of the paramedics made access to. we unlocked the garage, sheltered them in place. i said, hey, if you follow directions, which is to clear this home of pine needle, we would be safe here. reporter: what happened next was nothing short of amazing. emts and nurses became stand-in firefighters. some getting on the roof of this home, clearing gutters of brush, hosing down the outer edge of the property, saving this home all while their patients were kept safe inside. and he said, you do this. you do this. you do this. and all of us shifted our minds to what do we need to do for survival mode here. they followed directions. they did exactly what i asked them to do. reporter: amid a neighborhood devastated by the camp fire, this chloe court home survived.
an ambulance behind heather s making the same last phone call to her family. they kept telling me, you re going to be fine. no, you don t understand. i m not going to be fine. there is no way i m going to survive this p.m. there is fire blowing at me. reporter: as the fire was consuming homes all around them, a stranger helped heather get out of her ambulance and wheeled her up this driveway on chloe court. the nurse tamara followed and eventually they ran into david hawks, paradise s fire chief. there is a dog here that one of the paramedics made access to. we unlocked the garage and moved patient in this home and sheltered them in place. i said, hey, if you follow the directions, which is to clear home of pine needles that we would be safe here. reporter: what happened next was nothing short of amazing. emts and nurses became stand-in firefighters and some getting on the roof of this home clearing gutters abrush and hosing down the outer edge of the property and saving this h