BALDWIN, Pa. --
Intense heat forced crews in Baldwin to call for assistance at a four-alarm house fire overnight.
WTAE Channel 4's Tara Edwards reported someone living in the house tried to go back inside during the fire.
Firefighters said a man, his son and a friend were in the basement, working on the house on Dewalt Drive when the fire ignited.
"He was working in the bathroom with some tools and, somehow, we think it possibly started in there," Castle Shannon Fire Chief Bill Reffner. "(We saw) heavy smoke, heavy smoke, really heavy smoke. For a while, I could not stand outside because it was so heavy."
Firefighters said the man's wife pulled up in her car just in time to call 911 as the man got the kids out to safety.
Authorities said the man tried to go back in the house before a police officer stopped him. Authorities did not specify why the man tried to return inside.
Fire crews were able to knock down the flames pretty quickly and were able to save two cats.
"Our crews were taking a really good beating in the heat of the day. We were rotating crews as a result of this," Reffner said.
"I saw the fire trucks coming and I thought 'not again,'" said Pete Kochick, a neighbor.
Not even a year ago, neighbors said, a house next door caught fire, displacing them for about nine months. No one was hurt in either fire.
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