Here Comes the Bride...To Save the Day!

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Georgette Fogarty-Clemons was heading home from her wedding Sunday evening, looking forward to relaxing with a few friends. Her friend was driving slowly because they had some leftover cake in the car, along with hydrangeas and lilies still in water.That's when Clemons spotted smoke from the side of her neighbor's house in Bridgeport and told her friend to back up and stop.Still in her wedding gown and high heels, Fogarty-Clemons jumped out of the car."I stepped right into a pile of mud," Fogarty-Clemons said. "I just thought to myself, 'Oh my God, my shoes.""Where are you going?" asked her friend, Hanifah Bost, thinking the smoke was from a barbecue. Guests following them were equally perplexed."That's fire," Fogarty-Clemons said. "Come on; we have to tell them."Fogarty-Clemons made it to the house and pounded on the door, alerting the residents to the fire. A woman and her 16-year-old son and their pets were able to escape unharmed."We have no way of knowing what would have happened had she not come to the door," said Susan Schneiderman, who owns the house that caught fire.As firefighters arrived and battled the blaze after members of the family were alerted, Clemons folded her muddied wedding dress nearby."She was doing her best to get everybody out," Bridgeport Deputy Fire Chief Bruce Porzelt said of Fogarty-Clemons. "It's got to be a funny thing to end up doing that on your wedding day, in your wedding gown."