A Springs family is safe Friday morning after a close call.

They had settled in for the night--having no idea their house was on fire. Thanks to the actions of people driving by, the family was able to escape unharmed.

A pair was driving past the home on the 1000 block of Jet Wing when they noticed something seemed a little off: smoke was drifting across the roadway. Concerned, the two turned around to see where the smoke was coming from, and spotted flames coming from the attic of a home. The Good Samaritans raced over to the house and began pounding on the door to wake everyone up inside.

"We were asleep, and one of the neighbors was driving by and saw smoke coming from the vent," Salvador Gonzalez said.

"I was sleeping and my dad was yelling at us to get up, so we all came out running," Melania Gonzalez said.

Thanks to their quick thinking, the five members of the Gonzalez family--and their dog--all made it out of the house before fire crews arrived on scene.

Firefighters tell 11 News that the family wasn't alerted to the fire sooner, because it started above the smoke detectors inside the home. The cause has been determined to be a seized motor in the bathroom exhaust fan, which caused materials around the fan to catch in fire.

"We couldn't smell it," Gonzalez said about the smoke. "The door was closed in the bathroom and smoke was blowing out of the vents.

Crews were able to prevent the fire from spreading further in the home, and extinguished it quickly. The Fire Department reports that the family incurred $3,000 in structural damage, and were not displaced.

The Gonzalez family says they're in the process of contacting their insurance company.