Two Arapahoe County Sheriff's Deputies helped rescue two kids from a burning house, but investigators and their parents have since learned it was the 8-year-old boy who alerted his sister, allowing her to climb out a window.

Two sheriff's deputies are being praised for their courage in their rescue of two children who were trapped in a backyard when a home caught fire this weekend in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The deputies tore a fence apart piece by piece to reach the siblings.

Deputies rushed to save children trapped in the backyard of their home that was engulfed in flames, a Colorado sheriff’s office says.