Notified by their Ring doorbell, two women alerted the neighbor across the street about a growing fire.
The man was hurt when he jumped from the second floor in the rear of the building, Harrisburg Fire Chief Brian Enterline told WGAL. The resident will be OK.
The fire damaged five units in a row of 12 rowhomes. The rowhome in the middle is uninhabitable.
Enterline said crews responded quickly and it could have been worse.
The response was made more challenging by a townhome fire just across the Susquehanna River in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, that started at nearly the same time.
Enterline said their uptown engine was already headed to that fire when the call came in for Harrisburg. And they had to turn that engine around.
The cause remains under investigation.
