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<\/p>\nInvestigators are now looking into the cause of two separate fires in neighboring homes in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood. One of them killed a man and sent a woman to the hospital.<\/p>\n
When Shaya Delts walked out of her home and down the street on Wednesday morning, she didn’t expect to see flames coming from another home on Apple Street.<\/p>\n
“I had called 911 because I thought it was the house from last night at 2 o’clock.”<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Battalion came back to the street within minutes to a separate fire at the house next door.<\/p>\n
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A man was killed and a woman was injured when a home along Apple Street in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood went up in flames.<\/p>\n
KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer<\/p>\n
“Ended up leaving here at four in the morning. Two hours later, we have a fire on the outside in a terrain that doesn’t make much sense,” said Battalion Chief Ed Farley.<\/p>\n
Chief Farley said one house was abandoned and collapsed in the back, with no electricity or utilities set up.<\/p>\n
“That house is out here. Some of them need to be torn down. It’s dangerous for our guys,” he said.<\/p>\n
It’s a dangerous climb for firefighters, who found a similar situation with run-down stairs and more debris hours earlier at the house to the right of this one.<\/p>\n
“Getting to a lot of these houses, especially in the high sides, is difficult to get our lines in place,” Chief Farley said.<\/p>\n
At that home, Farley’s firefighters saw three floors covered in flames. Firefighters pulled one man through a window, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n
“It was sad because I know there were two older people that lived in that house, and I saw she made it out, so I was wondering if he was still in there,” Delts said.<\/p>\n
The woman was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
“Guys did a great job. Like I said, they went in, knocked down the fire. Found the victim. And got them out in a really quick fashion,” Chief Farley said of his firefighters.<\/p>\n
The fire marshal is investigating the cause of both fires.<\/p>\n
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