An off-duty paramedic ran toward danger to rescue his neighbor's daughter as a fire burned feet away from her Los Angeles home.

Seven-year-old Savannah Vasquez was upstairs in her bedroom when she felt the heat emanating from the flames engulfing a tree outside her family's home in the Larchmont neighborhood.

"I went to tell my grandma," Savannah said. "She went to tell everyone to get out of the house."

The young girl said she didn't grab anything and ran out of the house without her shoes.

"It felt hot. It hurt," she said.

Her neighbor, off-duty paramedic Richard Recinos, saw the flames and heard that everyone had run out of the home. However, when he shifted his focus to the house, he realized Savannah was standing two feet away from the fire.

"I had a leather jacket," he said. "I

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