80-year-old Houma man saved from burning home by stranger [Video]

HOUMA, La. — “Somebody upstairs is on my side,” said 80-year-old Navy veteran Kenneth Cobb with a laugh. Wednesday, somebody on the ground was on his side too.

That day, Cobb’s son Kris Posecai left their Houma home to prepare for his 1-year-old daughter’s birthday. They had both moved in with Cobb just weeks before to help him through treatment for two forms of cancer. 

“We got a call that there was a fire, and I said you’ve got to be kidding me,” said Posecai. Cobb himself fell unconscious at some point. “I can’t tell you where I was, nothing,” Cobb said. “Everything’s blank.”

Posecai rushed back to the house. “They stopped me at the door,” he said, “and that was …