A Columbus firefighter was forced to jump from a burning home overnight.
The fire forced two college students from their apartment on Clinton Street at about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, NBC 4 's Marshall McPeek reported.
The residents were planning to report an electrical problem to the landlord Wednesday morning so they went out for the evening.
"They said they were having trouble with the electric. It actually went off a few hours before this fire," the battalion chief on the scene said.
When the residents returned home, they found two fire companies, dozens of firefighters and flames shooting from their apartment.
"We had to get a lot of fire lines in there quickly and a result, we kind of ran out of water pretty fast before we could get a hydrant hooked up. For a few seconds, we ran out of water," he said.
The fire was so strong that a firefighter was forced to jump from a third-floor window, McPeek reported.
"One of the guys had to bail out of the third-floor window, dropped down, hung out and just dropped down onto the porch. He's alright. In fact, he went back in and did some more firefighting after that," that battalion chief said.
No injuries were reported.
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