Hero tradie Sam Sabsabi saves injured victim from burning Carramar home – then drives to work 

A Sydney tradie is being praised as a hero after he pulled a man from a burning house by breaking down a door and carrying them to safety – then carrying on to his day’s work.

Tragically a second person in the home, who could not be rescued, later died at the scene. 

Sydney carpenter Hayssam ‘Sam’ Sabsabi was driving to work around 7am when he spotted something badly wrong in the home at Carramar, in southern Sydney.

Mr Sabsabi pulled over, broke through the front door of the smoke-filled disability care home and was hit by the searing heat.

Emergency crews were called to River Avenue Carramar (pictured) about 7.15am to reports of a blaze

A man has died and another person is seriously injured after a fire broke out in Sydney’s southwest (pictured) on Tuesday morning

Mr Sabsabi said he heard a trapped resident calling out desperately for help.

‘It was like a furnace, I opened the door where one man was calling for help, the smoke hit me in the face but I was able to drag him to a front window and heave him out,’ Mr Sabsabi told The Daily Telegraph.

‘I couldn’t get to the other one, the smoke was too thick, I heard his voice from back of the house, ‘I’m here, I’m here’, but I couldn’t get to him, the smoke was black, I feel so bad he didn’t make it.’

With emergency services on the scene, the shaken Mr Sabsabi somehow hopped back in his ute and went to work, 9News reported. 

Emergency services were called to River Avenue at Carramar about 7.15am on Tuesday. 

Crews arrived to find a person outside the single-level villa disability share home suffering from smoke inhalation. They were treated by paramedics at the scene. 

A man, aged 38, was removed from inside the building by a staff member and another resident  

NSW Ambulance paramedics performed CPR on the man, however, he could not be revived.  

FRNSW Acting Deputy Commissioner Paul McGuiggan said firefighters, staff and other residents did everything they could but he has tragically passed away as a result of the fire.

He added that the tragedy served as a reminder of the importance of having a working fire alarm. 

‘This is the fourth preventable fire death this year,’ Deputy Commissioner McGuiggan said. 

The fire has been extinguished and investigators will begin examining the scene once it is deemed safe 

‘Here we are in a shared facility where we have people with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities.  Significant planning goes into making sure they are safe.

‘While we have smoke alarms in this facility, we have firefighters going to facilities where they have been removed. 

‘It is just not good enough to have a smoke alarm. You need a working fire alarm on your premises.’ 

Parts of River Avenue remain closed to traffic and motorists are advised to avoid the area. 

The fire has been extinguished and once the site is declared safe, fire investigators and detectives from Fairfield City Police Area Command will begin their examination of the scene.