A man was killed, and a child was taken to the hospital after a home in North Lauderdale caught on fire on Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to North Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the man was 70 years old, and the child, 6, was in serious condition.<\/p>\n
The identities of the two were not released.<\/p>\n
Investigators were seen examining a house in North Lauderdale after neighbors watched rescuers trying to save the lives of those who were inside.<\/p>\n
Ring Camera footage captured a woman’s desperate pleas for help,<\/p>\n
“Neighbor came down, and she just banged on the door and said, ‘Yeah, we need help, we need help,'” said Terry Gervilus. “She was pretty frantic.”<\/p>\n
Gervais and his family jumped into action just before 5.15 a.m. as they tried to put out the fire next door with a water hose.<\/p>\n
Across the street, a neighbor’s camera captured the intensity of the flames lighting up the dark at Southwest Eighth Court off North Lauderdale Avenue.<\/p>\n
“They were really big, those flames were past the ceiling,” Gervilus said.<\/p>\n
He told NBC6 that the fire was too big for him to try to reach anyone inside the house.<\/p>\n
Gervilus watched rescuers perform CPR on two people pulled from the home.<\/p>\n
“I saw one of them,” he said. “They was doing chest compressions while they were rolling her out to the ambulance.”<\/p>\n
The fire forced at least one family to evacuate behind the burning home.<\/p>\n
By daylight, investigators were still working to find out how those flames started.<\/p>\n
NBC6 spoke with a father who lives just on the other side of this house, who had to evacuate with his children.<\/p>\n
They are now safely back inside the house.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the fire is underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed, and a child was taken to the hospital after a home in North Lauderdale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,19924],"class_list":["post-315259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-north-lauderdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}