Endicott Hall’s resident director is crediting two fast-acting resident assistants with extinguishing a cooking fire early Monday morning, begun with slabs of an ill-attended late-night snack — likely frying cheese, the RD said — before the smoldering concoction could escalate into a dorm-damaging inferno.

The hero RAs — social work grad student Hicania Gomez and junior electrical engineering major Christopher Wenz — sprung into action shortly after the fire alarms began sounding.

“My adrenaline was pumping,” Wenz recalled Monday night. “I just wanted to make sure everyone was safe.”

While working to put out the fire, Gomez said she became concerned for her residents because her first-floor wing is the closest cluster of dorm rooms to the kitchen.

“I thought, ‘Should I stop spraying and get my girls out?’” Gomez said. “It was a huge adrenaline rush.”

While first-responder Gomez labored to choke off the fire, Wenz heard the alarm and raced to the lounge kitchen, the source of the smoke.

Wenz helped Gomez, who had arrived first, put out the flames.

“When I came down I saw the smoke in our main area,” Wenz said. “We both crouched down and she shot at the fire.”

The device soon ran out of extinguishing foam, so they ran to other parts of the building to get additional extinguishers — all the while directing residents out of the building.

Wenz said he and Gomez were so focused on fire extinguishing — a skill the Arizona native learned as an eagle scout — that he didn’t notice what had started the blaze.

“Smoke was billowing. In those moments you don’t really look what’s on the counter,” Wenz said.

Three campus police officers rushed to Endicott Hall shortly after receiving the fire alarm call as Endicott’s 200-odd weary-eyed students evacuated the building in the wee hours before the first day of spring semester classes.

The two cheese cookers who investigators say inadvertently started the fire left Endicott along with their neighbors, apparently oblivious to the fact that their cheese had triggered the evacuation.

In the tense hour following the initial evacuation while residents huddled in the cold by Newing Dining Hall, Vestal firefighters and University police officers conducted an investigation as dorm staff made sure every last resident was accounted for. By shortly after 3 a.m., it was business as usual, with all residents back in the building.

Captain Donald A. Chier, a spokesman for BU’s N.Y. State University Police, said no one was injured in the blaze. But the Endicott RD, Greg Kuester, said that with the extensive burns and melted cheese in and around the stove’s hood area, neither the stove nor microwave will probably be salvageable.