A North Carolina man managed to save his family from a devastating house fire after a motion sensor camera he had set up outside tipped him off about the blaze.

Lee Spargo initially set up an outdoor game trail camera at his home near Mount Holly in hopes of catching a wild fox that had been preying on his chickens, but he was alerted of another danger Tuesday night when the device caught footage of his house being engulfed in flames, according to the Gaston Gazette.