The quick actions of an Ardmore police officer and a bystander saved a physically disabled woman involved in a Thanksgiving morning structure fire on State Line Road.

The woman, who had a prosthetic leg, was pulled to safety by Officer David Posey and another man, Jason Scroggins. Even more impressive, Posey was just recently given an all-clear after suffering two back-to-back heart attacks that required two stents.

Posey was drawn to the scene by the sight of smoke and arrived there at 7:40 a.m. The structure, an old warehouse that had been converted into an apartment, was fully involved when he arrived.

Tim Toone, chief of the Ardmore volunteer fire department, previously told The News Courier a male who lived in the apartment was on the front porch when a passerby told him the back of the building was on fire.

Posey said when he pulled up, the male occupant and a female were in the process of evacuating dogs from the apartment and were unaware there was a woman still inside. The couple told Posey a male and female had stayed there the night before. One of them heard the male visitor leave that morning and had assumed the female was also gone.

Posey said he could hear a woman yelling for help as he approached the door, which had been left open by the residents evacuating their dogs. Posey and Scroggins entered the apartment, which was filled with smoke and flame.

“He grabbed her leg and I grabbed her arms and we pulled her out of there,” Posey said, adding he didn’t think twice about rushing in there. “Anybody would have done the same thing.”

The woman who was pulled from the building was not injured, Toone said.

Posey’s actions came less than three months after suffering two heart attacks within an hour and a half of each other. He had gone to the hospital Sept. 6 after suffering his first heart attack and was being treated in the catheter lab. About 45 minutes after leaving the lab, Posey said he began having pain in his left shoulder. Doctors determined he was having another heart attack and then put in two stents.

“I’m doing fine now,” Posey said, adding he was physically up to the challenge of pulling a woman from a burning building. “I got a full release.”