A Black woman passed away after letting five other people in California home know about a house fire in the Sacramento-area community of North Highlands, California, on Christmas Day. The fire began because a faulty artificial Christmas tree. On Christmas day at 2 a.m., Destiny Abdrazack woke up to a fire in her future in-laws home.

The Sacramento Metro Fire department says the fire was caused by an electric short in the holiday tree. The 22-year-old told everyone in the home — her fiancé, future in-laws Ernest Isom and his wife, and two other adults that there was a fire helping them to escape.

Abdrazack and the family’s two dogs didn’t make it out the fire, that also destroyed the Isoms’ property.

She was discovered in the living room by firefighters and rushed to a local hospital. Medical professionals said she was in critical condition until pronouncing her dead, KSBW reported. Isom told the news station, “She was the one who yelled fire, and that’s the sad part. She saved our lives.”

The patriarch says the family had gone to sleep without turning off all of the Christmas tree lights.

“Unfortunately, they wanted to keep the lights on until the last minute, and we all happened to fall asleep, and we had an instant, seconds to get out,” Isom said. “It was fast, and that’s how quick it went. I’m talking minutes.”

People living in the neighborhood told KCRA they saw the tree sparking and believed knew something was wrong.

“You could see the flickering light on the tree, and that’s kind of like the telltale sign of a fire,” Richard Byers told KCRA.

Byers attempted to help, by grabbing a fire extinguisher from his house and another neighbor spraying it from his house’s garden hose.

“The fire just came right back. It was too intense, moving too fast,” he said.

Brandy Byers, his wife says when she saw the Isom family outside, they were yelling for help.

“They were screaming, ‘Destiny! There’s someone inside! There’s someone inside!’” Brandy told KCRA. “There [was] nothing any of us could do.

A GoFundMe has been created to pay for the woman’s hospital and funeral costs after tragedy. The donation page has raised over $7,000 of its $100,000 goal.

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