Schertz resident Steven White thought an airplane had crashed nearby as his windows and walls rattled Friday morning. He soon realized the home a few doors down had exploded.

White was one of three residents who rushed to help a woman who was trapped inside a burning home in the 400 block of Mitchell Avenue, just before 11 a.m.

“I don’t know how I got down there so quick, but I did,” the 84-year-old man said. “There were two fellas there, going in the house.”

White said after noticing they were trying to rescue a woman, still trapped inside the burning home, he did what he could to help.

“The whole front of the house had blown off,” White said. “I was moving the window frame and the glass and stuff so we could get her down, out of the house.”

The woman, who White said was bloodied and

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