One person was rushed to the hospital after an early morning fire in Homewood. It was on Hamilton Avenue between Collier Street and North Braddock Avenue<\/p>\n
Fire crews got here very quickly, within a minute or two of the first call to 911 coming in. The nearest fire station is about a minute from here on Hamilton Avenue.<\/p>\n
Firefighters were still here hours later \u2013 putting out hotspots.<\/p>\n
“I go back to the back door, and the whole back of the third floor is engulfed in flames,” Alvin Dean, who lives next door to the house that caught fire, said.<\/p>\n
Dean then knew for sure that something was very wrong.<\/p>\n
“The whole back of the third floor \u2013 the second floor\u2026 just fire coming out of it,” Dean said.<\/p>\n
Dean called 911. He’d already been beaten to it. A Pittsburgh fire captain said a police crew had actually noticed it and called it in.<\/p>\n
“The next thing I know, the fire truck was coming,” Dean said.<\/p>\n
Firefighters worked on Hamilton Avenue for hours. They fought the fire from the inside, and then from the outside after it got too dangerous.<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Fire captain KDKA spoke with says one person was taken to the hospital. Dean said it was his brother.<\/p>\n
“He couldn’t breathe; the smoke got him,” he said.<\/p>\n
The smoke was that strong. Dean and his brother did not go into the house that caught fire \u2013 it was abandoned.<\/p>\n
But Dean lives in the house next door. There are still some worries he has about his house.<\/p>\n
“I got water damage from the third floor all the way down,” he said.<\/p>\n
The fire captain KDKA spoke with said there was a partial collapse on the right side as well.<\/p>\n
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