An intensive care unit nurse at Oklahoma City’s Mercy Hospital was in the middle of her 12-hour shift treating coronavirus patients Tuesday when she heard that her house was on fire, according to local media.
Tina Irwin, who lives about four miles away from the hospital, hopped in her car and sped home, where three of her four children and their pets were still inside, according to KOCO 5 News. "Please mom, help us," her daughter reportedly said over the phone before the line went dead.
Irwin arrived, reunited with her children and saved a few belongings, then they escaped to safety. She parked so close to the house that her bumper melted. "I've been working frontline as a COVID ICU nurse since April...coming home exhausted," the single.