SAN DIEGO
A fire spread from a garage to a home in San Carlos on Monday afternoon, displacing two residents, San Diego fire officials said.
The fire started about 2:20 p.m. and quickly engulfed the garage of the home on Lake Artemus, just west of Lake Murray Boulevard. The fire then spread to the attic of the home, San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief David Picone told OnScene TV.
A neighbor told OnScene TV he and his wife were sitting in their living room when they smelled “a little smoke.” He said he thought someone was barbecuing, but then heard someone screaming, “Fire, fire, fire!” He said he walked out and saw the garage engulfed in flames.
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Battalion Chief David Picone remembers the car wreck on Mother s Day some 20 years ago like it was yesterday. Picone, then a paramedic in Riverside County, comforted an uninjured toddler who was in one of the cars involved in the crash, holding the girl in his arms as he looked for her mother.
The mom was dead.
Years later, the crash remains in Picone s memory the same way other traumatic events haunt his colleagues. Along with the day-in-and-day-out grind, the battalion chief said, it all takes its toll.
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