An Omaha woman found herself trapped inside her burning home on Saturday. Kathine Jordan then had to choose between the flames and jumping out of the second story window.
Jordan didn't have any clothes on Saturday when the flames broke out at her townhouse near 106th and old Maple Road. Her fiancé had been cooking fish before the flames erupted.
"He ran back in the room, he was like 'The fire it's fire! It's fire!'" Jordan told 6 News. "I was going to try to run down the stairs but the smoke filled up the hallway."
Three times she tried to get through the thick smoke and three times she went to the second floor window realizing this was her only way out.
"I kind of hung out the window a little bit and I could hear my daughter screaming, 'The fire! The fire!'" Her motherly instincts told her she needed to live for her kids. Jordan said her options were to jump or to burn.
As she hung from the window frame, her finger nails started tearing. She said felt the presence of her father who recently passed.
"I was like 'I hope he's right there because I was going down so I was like 'Please daddy just help me,’” said Jordan. She hit the ground hard fracturing her left leg breaking her arm and part of her tailbone.
"When the fire department guy came he said 'For you to fall on that pavement you had to have a guardian angel,'" she told 6 News.
The recovery will be long. Multiple operations are ahead and they say the fire burned up everything they own. But through it all they know they have each other. The family has created a GoFundMe page to help pay for medical costs.
Investigators say a grease fire in the oven is to blame.
(Photo: 6 News)