Detroit Firefighter Hurt in Fall at Fatal House Fire
The Detroit News
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One man is dead and a Detroit firefighter was injured in a Tuesday house fire on the city's west side, officials said.
Firefighters were called at about 11:30 p.m. to the 10200 block of McQuade Street near Dexter Avenue and Chicago Boulevard for a report of a fire at a home, according to authorities.
Fire companies arrived and flames were coming from the home, they said. Crews arrived within four and a half minutes of receiving the call, officials said.
First responders searched the home for occupants and found a man inside, they said. He was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, fire officials said.
As crews worked to extinguish the fire, a firefighter fell from the home's second floor to the basement and injured his back, they said. He was taken to a hospital, officials said.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the resident we lost, and with our injured member as he recovers," Corey McIsaac, a Detroit Fire Department spokeswoman, said in a statement Wednesday.
Officials said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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