Bedroom of one of the homes. Firefighters say he died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But firefighters say it did start outside between the two homes where youre looking at right now with our live shot. The tree in between those two homes is some sort of a cypress tree and that tree caught fire and that helped the fire get above into the roof line area, liz. And that is what caused the fire to spread so rapidly. Once it got into the rafters and to the attic space, there was basically no slowing it down. And it did continue to burn in fact, five hours later there was a big flareup and fortunately firefighters had not left the scene and they were able to put that out. Those flames were so intense, len. Thank goodness those brave Tree Trimmers were there. They saved the day. Unbelievable. Reporter thats right. They were working nearby when no one else was around and they started knocking on doors and doing just what you would hope somebody would do