A hero Asda home delivery driver rescued a newborn baby from a devastating house fire .
Habeel Khan, 26, saw the blaze on his normal delivery rounds so rushed inside the property.
He helped save the seven-week-old tot and get out of the property near Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.
The fire started in the kitchen and spread quickly, Nottinghamshire Live says.
"It was a just a normal day at work for me," modest Habeel said.
"I was doing my deliveries in the Stapleford area and when I pulled up and looked over to where the customer's house was I saw loads of smoke just gushing out of a house.
"My natural instinct was to just run across to the house. I could see loads of smoke and lots of people panicking outside.
"I shouted 'is everyone out of the house?' and that's when a woman with two young children shouted 'my baby; my baby's still in the house.'"
"I don't think she had realised until then and then she ran back into the house and I went with her.
"She managed to pick up the baby from a room next to the kitchen where the fire had started, then we ran out."
Despite his modesty, brave Habeel, who works at the Asda Home Shopping Centre in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, was recently named Colleagues' Colleague of the Year at the Being Asda Awards 2019.
He has also been praised for his actions.
"I didn't really think anything of it – I just thought I'd helped out, and had done a little good deed," the employee added.
"I don't think I have done anything heroic at all to be honest. Thankfully everyone was okay in the end and the family are back in the house."
Habeel's manager Peter Smith said: "We know him as Smiler. He is always happy. He is always doing the right thing by the customer. He is an absolute asset to the team and a credit to the company."
Asda's senior vice president of operations Anthony Hemmerdinger said: "What Habeel did was remarkable and it's not something we would recommend that our colleagues do, however it's clear that in this instance his instinct kicked in and he did a remarkable job."
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