Hero 23-year-old pulls elderly neighbours from burning Brisbane house

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Hero 23-year-old pulls elderly neighbours from burning Brisbane house
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A neighbour who rushed to save two elderly siblings from their burning house in south Brisbane overnight has been hailed a hero. 9News

Twenty-three-year-old engineer John McGann said he ripped a locked front door off its hinges to enter the major housefire on Gloucester Street in Highgate Hill in a brave effort to save a brother and sister.

Twenty-three-year-old engineer John McGann said he ripped a locked front door off its hinges to enter the major housefire on Gloucester Street in Highgate Hill in a brave effort to save a brother and sister."House was full of stuff and equipment so we had to pull the doors off and pull a couple of things outside the house and I went inside the house and grabbed them."

When firefighters arrived at the scene the house was "fully involved with a high volume of smoke and flames".

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