A self professed alcoholic saved his beloved beer from a fiery death after his home caught fire; the man, who walks with a cane, ran back into the house after all the other residents had made it out safely.

MS News Now reports that six adults and two young children were inside watching television when the room began filling with smoke. After the children were rescued and everyone made it outside safely, a man who walks with a cane went back in the burning house to retrieve something he left behind.

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"I told them to get the kids out and everything, and me myself, being an alcoholic, I was trying to get my beer out," said Walter Serpit, "I went back into the house like a dummy and the door shut on me because this back draft was about to kill me."

Serpit managed to save several cans of beer and he escaped the home without getting burned. After a harrowing experience such as this it must be a comfort to "crack open" a warm one I suppose.