The first two people to come to the aide of neighbors caught in a house fire are up for some official recognition. They’ve been nominated for Colorado Springs Fire Department Civilian Awards.

Elizabeth Daniels' typical day doesn't involve running toward danger.

"You don't feel like a hero,” she said. “It's all about realizing you're it: the only one there at the time."

Daniels was starting her day the morning of April 21. At about 7:40 a.m. a home on Constellation Drive, near her southwest Colorado Springs neighborhood, burst into flames.

Elizabeth decided she couldn't just wait for help.

"You need to do something. the gears start going and you don't really have a plan, but it all worked out," she said.

Two people inside the house can thank Elizabeth and her neighbor Rick Parker for racing to lend a hand in a moment of spontaneous team work.

"We do a lot of waving, but I had never spoken with him or chatted with him," Elizabeth said.

Rick pulled the people out of the house, and Elizabeth tended to them until emergency crews could take over.

"The fact that somebody chose to get involved despite what the personal harm to them would have been, we applaud that, and we thank them very much for getting involved," said Lt. J.J. Halsey.

Halsey believes the two went above and beyond, and have earned a nomination for the department's awards for heroism and citizen lifesaving.

Like most who deserve recognition, Elizabeth is humble.

"I think it's very nice, I really do," she said.

Helping, however, is just something she thinks any friend and neighbor would do.

There's one other person the fire department would like to recognize. They say it's a woman in her 40's or 50's who was driving a black Acura the day of the fire, and helped Elizabeth and Rick with their efforts.

Anyone who would like to help the fire department reach that third mystery good Samaritan, can contact them at 385-7251.