Firefighters brave flames to save teen's Taylor Swift concert dress

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A teen made it out of a burning home before she realized that the dress she planned to wear to see Taylor Swift in concert the following night was still inside. Luckily, firefighters saved it in the nick of time.

Grace Farrell, 17, was staying with her grandparents in Frankfort, Ill., on Saturday night while her parents were out of town, according to ABC affiliate WLS-TV. She was getting ready for bed when suddenly the house broke out in flames.

Firefighters responded to the scene quickly and got everyone out of the burning home, but it wasn’t until Farrell was outside that she realized her dress, which she’d planned to wear for the Chicago stop of Swift's Eras Tour, wasn't with her.

"She mentioned her retainer and then, ‘Oh my god, my dress for the concert!" firefighter Brian Adcock tells PEOPLE, adding that the teen even had it "rush-shipped."

Farrell asked if she could go back inside the house to grab both items, but Adcock told her it wasn't safe; the fire had reached her bedroom.

However, after the teen showed him a photo of the unique dress, Adcock offered to go in himself to try to recover it. He says Farrell's sister told him, "Whatever it takes, we are going to see Taylor Swift."

Ultimately Adcock was able to rescue Farrell's special garment. "I took off the bedroom door ... went to her closet, and most of her clothes were still intact," he says, adding that "the whole family was clapping" when he reappeared outside with the dress.

"I was just speechless," the teen told WLS-TV.

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