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WHIDBEY ISLAND - He's got all of the traits of a super hero; he's fearless, fast, and a master of disguise.

And Lucas Helland, 3, has already saved the day.

It happened when his mom used a chair as a step stool.

"I stepped off and when I did, I stepped wrong and snapped my ankle," explained Carla Helland. "I threw my head backwards and hit my head and I passed out."

Lucas picked up his mother's cell phone, scrolled through her saved phone numbers and started making calls.

The toddler left messages for his older sister, brother, and father. He can't read but he knows what their names look like. Within minutes his dad called home and got help.

KOMO 4 News asked Lucas "were you scared?" "Yes," the little boy answered.

But the story doesn't end there. Just five days later as Lucas and his little brother Logan, 2, played next to their dad's truck an electrical problem sparked a fire.

When their mom spotted the smoke coming from the truck she ran to help -- only to find Lucas already making the rescue.

"He, at that time, was still pulling out his brother who was kind of screaming ''Leave me alone! Leave me alone!' But he pulled him away from the truck," said Carla.

There's hardly anything left of the truck. But there is not a single mark on either boy.

Like most heroes, Lucas takes no credit.

"It got burned up," he said.

But saving two family members in five days makes his mother proud.

"I think he was put on this earth for something, and maybe this was it, I don't know," said Carla with a laugh.

Lucas just started pre-school and he already has quite a story to tell when it comes time to talk about what he did over the summer.