Resident and firefighter injured in house fire in Oak Park
What started out as a quiet evening at home on Romo Street, ended up with the people living in the house escaping a fire. Author: LaMonica Peters (KFMB) Updated: 10:24 PM PST December 30, 2020
SAN DIEGO A sober living home in San Diego with nearly a dozen people inside went up in flames Wednesday night, and the residents narrowly escaped. At least one of those people was injured as well as one of the firefighters on the scene.
News 8 spoke to one woman and her daughter who say it was a really scary situation. One minute they were relaxing, the next minute they smelled smoke, ran out of the house and warned others on the way out.
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A firefighter suffered minor burn injuries and five people were hurt including three children who suffered smoke inhalation in a house fire Wednesday evening near the Oak Park area, fire officials said.
Among the injured residents was an adult who jumped from a second-story window, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. A fourth child was injured, though it was not immediately clear how, and that child was not taken to a hospital.
Medics took the injured firefighter to Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in the College Area, and four residents a mother and three children to UC San Diego Medical Center, which has a specialized burn unit for treatment of burn and smoke inhalation injuries.
Updated on December 31, 2020 at 2:07 pm
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Three children, an adult and a firefighter were injured as a fire burned through a home near Oak Park Wednesday night, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue and the Heartland Fire Department.
The fire was reported at a two-story roup home on Romo Street at around 5:30 p.m., according to SDFD.
At least three children escaped the fire but suffered smoke inhalation, SDFD said. They were taken to the hospital, along with an adult woman who broke her leg jumping from a second-story window.
Neighbors came to her aid after she jumped to safety.