mortal danger to save them. here s rachel collier of our louisville affiliate wdrb. reporter: this is tamara findley, a mother of three and aunt to two. she was 31 years old and spent her last day saving those children s lives. this town home on south 11th street was burning up fast thursday morning. the only escape was from a second story window. i looked up and saw the smoke and i saw a kid hanging out the window. so and the paper man had ran up just as i was running up. i had told the paper man. the paper man was just like jump. if you jump we ll catch. reporter: she fought the flames and smoke and started throwing the kids out of window into the arms of bystanders. he jumps out of the window. i caught him and put him down. i kept asking the lady who lived there how many more kids up there. she said there was two more. reporter: after all five kids were safe, firefighters had to go in for tamara.