A pair of hero Scots brothers braved an inferno to pull two people to safety after a blaze broke out in a block of flats.
Aaron, 29, and Kieran Miller, 26, witnessed smoke billowing through the roof of a building in Kinross.
The siblings immediately burst into action and rushed to the top floor, where they helped to rescue a shocked man.
Straight afterwards, they entered the burning building again to kick down the door of a second man, who was fast asleep in a flat on the middle floor.
The pair had been on a coffee break from repairing plumbing and heating systems when they raced to help before the fire brigade had even arrived.
Their heroic efforts have since earned them high praise from relatives for overcoming their own fears to help others.
Smoke billowed from the three-storey block on Kinross High Street after a blaze broke out in a top- floor flat last week.
Kieran, from Falkirk, said: "We went to get a coffee when we saw smoke. We thought that it was too much smoke for like a chimney.
"We were told it's not your job' to but we thought by the time the fire service came people could be dead.
"We helped the man on the top floor. He was just in shock and shaking and we said 'we have to go pal'.
"We went back up to get things and we saw another door.
"I started punching the door but I couldn't get it open so my brother kicked the door down.
"The person inside was sleeping. He asked what was happening, and I told him the close was on fire.
"So we helped him to get some of his sentimental things as well."
Their father Michael says the brothers acted heroically despite their own fears.
He said: "I'm aware that both of my sons were frightened by the very obvious and immediate dangers and feared for their lives as they twice entered the smoke-filled burning building to save the occupants within.
"I firmly believe that Aaron and Kieran's heroic deeds saved local people from a death-threatening incident.
"Both of my sons have very young families and put the safety of others before their own."
Mandy Shepard, who owns Mandy's Hairdresser's witnessed the blaze from her salon just yards from the block of flats.
She said: "I was cutting a client's hair when I noticed people in the street stopping and pointing up.
"I looked out and was shocked to see a lot of smoke coming from the roof.
"Within minutes, the smoke turned to flames. It was terrifying to watch."
It is unclear how the blaze started but it is understood it broke out in the flat before spreading to the roof space.
Access to the apartment via a narrow spiral staircase is also understood to have hampered the situation for firefighters first to enter the scene.
