The backyard of a home caught fire early Sunday morning in Conesville, Schoharie County.

Alex Perry and his friend Gavin Miceli were inside the home watching a movie just after midnight Sunday. Perry got up to go the bathroom, and that’s when he noticed his backyard was on fire.

“I was immediately like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Like it’s crazy. It was crazy. You know, I turned straight to fight or flight. You never see that,” Perry said.

Perry is also thankful he got up to go to the bathroom.

“If I didn’t have to go to the bathroom, I would have gone right to sleep and knocked out. And who knows what would have happened,” said Perry.

There is no faucet for a hose on the side of the house, which made the fire a bit more tricky to put out. Perry connected two garden hoses to water pressure tanks in the basement of the house and ran the hoses up to the backyard.

As Perry was working on the hoses, his friend Miceli was using the fire extinguisher.

“I went right out there with the fire extinguisher, and I got, like, all the fire that was close to the house. I got that out pretty quick,” Miceli said.

The two said they didn’t even call 911 until after the fire extinguisher had run out. That’s when the Conesville Fire Department responded to the home.

“I also want to thank the Conesville Fire Department. They got there way quicker than I ever thought they would,” Perry said.

The fire department is still investigating what caused the fire, but Perry and Miceli believe it started from leaves sparking in the chimney.

See what the flames looked like as Perry and Miceli were helping put it out, by watching the video of Zach Richter’s story.