Texas crews battled a house fire that injured at least four people, including a firefighter, Monday night.
Raw video captured from the scene shows Cy-Fair and Cypress Creek firefighters tackling the blaze at a home in Cypress, according to authorities. The video, which was shot by the Cypress Fair Volunteer Fire Department, shows flames spreading from the house to a car parked in the driveway.
One person was in the house when the fire broke out, and two neighbors pulled that person from the fire before crews arrived, the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department stated in an online update. The man rescued from the house was taken to a local hospital, and the two neighbors were treated for smoke inhalation at the scene.
"He was barely breathing at one point. It looked like he had stopped breathing, and we just held him in our hands and told him it was going to be all right as he was struggling for air," Marco Bergen, one of the two rescuers, told KHOU-TV. "I don’t know how long it was. Felt like an hour, but about 5 to 10 minutes later, the ambulance came, got him up, got him some oxygen. It was a life-changing experience being able to help someone like that."
A Cypress Creek firefighter suffered an unknown injury during the fire, according to the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department.
The house was destroyed in the fire, which crews extinguished. But a few hours after that, the blaze reignited, and firefighters were needed to put it out a second time, KHOU reports.
