Fire gutted a house in Enchanted Lake yesterday afternoon and damaged a neighboring house.

No one was hurt in the 3 p.m. fire at 508 Papalani St.

Two passersby, Nephi Olson and Howard Doctorello, said they stopped and alerted residents on either side of the burning house about the fire and helped them get out.

"I was driving by and saw flames shooting out the windows," said Doctorello, 47, a Waimanalo resident and manager of American Standard Concrete Pumping. "We just started getting people out."

Olson, 31, a mortgage broker who lives nearby, said he drove to where he saw smoke and started pounding on doors and yelling in windows of the houses to see if anyone was home.

Doctorello and Olson said no one was home in the house where the fire started, but that a woman and a baby were in the house on the Kane'ohe side of the fire, and an elderly woman was in the corner house on the Waimanalo side of the fire. They also helped residents move their cars away from the fire.

The elderly woman who lives in the corner house said her home was spared serious damage. The woman, who declined to give her name, said she was alerted to the fire by men who knocked on her door and encouraged her to drive her car out of her carport.

The house on the Kane'ohe side of the burned house sustained extensive damage. The resident of the house where the fire started arrived at the scene and was looking for her two dogs. One dog was found a few minutes later.

Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 20 minutes. There was no immediate determination of what caused the fire.