WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Baltimore County firefighter was hailed as a hero for saving a woman inside her burning Northwest Washington home on Tuesday. The woman's husband died in the fire.
Off-duty Lt. Stephen Weatherby happened to be driving by when he saw the flames coming out of the rowhouse, according to Alan Etter, a spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department.
Weatherby made his way inside and found a 79-year-old woman in the kitchen, who had been burned. The woman was reluctant to leave, because her invalid, terminally ill husband was still inside. But Weatherby finally led her to safety. She was treated and released from a hospital.
Another woman, the couple's 55-year-old daughter, managed to escape on her own with just minor injuries. But the elderly man was found dead on the second floor of the home.
Etter said high wind fanned the flames. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
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