Security guard helps rescue construction worker from structure fire in Oakland NBC Bay Area [Video]

Heroism was on display Wednesday as an Oakland apartment fire sent an entire construction crew to the hospital.

It happened at 61st and Martin Luther King Way around 10:30 a.m.

Video shows the moments EMS and Oakland fire crews rush to help a fire victim who had been pulled from the burning building.

“I was driving and I noticed black, thick smoke from a distance,” said security guard Juan Melgoza, was driving to meet NBC Bay Area’s team when he spotted the fire and decided to stop and help.

That’s when he saw two men who had already escaped the flames trying to get into the burning apartment to rescue a friend still trapped inside.

“He was just screaming, he was saying ‘I can not see, I don’t know where to go, I can not see’ I could hear from the inside he was banging the walls, he was probably …