Though it only took about 15 minutes to successfully remove the remains from the building, funeral director David Ucci told 12 News it felt like a lifetime.

A funeral director was called a hero after a fire tore through Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home in East Greenwich in the early morning of Feb. 2. “I had never seen anything like that in person before, it was incredible,

David Ucci remembers waking up early Sunday morning to a devastating phone call from the East Greenwich Police Department.

Funeral director David Ucci Jr. "was in shock" when he saw fire consuming Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home early Sunday morning, but he knew he had to go inside the burning building. The four bodies inside were his responsibility,