No one knew much about the elderly woman who kept to herself in her little white house for 47 years, but a blazing fire sent two to her rescue Sunday night.

She was alone with her two dogs when her neighbors near Azle saw a fire blazing from the home.

Denise Forshee and her son-in-law, Andrew Greathouse, raced across the street. The house was already an inferno.

"[You] couldn't see nothing, just smoke," Forshee said. " You couldn't see, breathe, anything."

The pair said they could hear Wilma Ayers, 70, yell out to them as they searched for her.

"She was hollering about her dogs," Forshee said.

They followed her voice in the black heat.

"It was intense, very hot," Forshee said. "I don't know how she was sitting at that front door."

When they found Ayers, they saw she was trying in vain to reach her two dogs "Boots" and "Sissy."

Forshee and Greathouse managed to usher her out to safety.

"They were very nice to me," she said.

While she said she believes the duo saved her life, she still had one regret.

"... I would have kept on trying to get my dogs," she said.

Her rescuers were still searching for the dogs when they spotted smoke in the ruins and called back firefighters. When the firefighters returned, the already happy ending to a could-have-been tragedy got even better.

While neighbors had seen Sissy after the fire, they assumed Boots perished. However, that wasn't the case. Both dogs managed to escape the fire safely.

They went Ayers' daughter's home, which was where Ayers is staying, to deliver the news Monday.

"Oh, both of them," she said when she saw her dogs. "Hello babies. Oh, both lived."

While Ayers had no home insurance, she still thinks it all ended well.

"I'm going to miss it, going to miss my home," she said. "I got my dogs though. That makes me happy."