CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A 76-year-old man barely escaped a fire early Monday morning. Fire crews said he was hard to rescue because of all of the clutter in his home. Fire investigators said two neighbors called police when they saw heavy smoke coming from a front bedroom of the Cleveland Heights home. When fire crews arrived at the scene on Noble Road, they found the man collapsed in the hallway with burns on 40 percent of his body.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio --
A 76-year-old man barely escaped a fire early Monday morning.
Fire crews said he was hard to rescue because of all of the clutter in his home.
Fire investigators said two neighbors called police when they saw heavy smoke coming from a front bedroom of the Cleveland Heights home.
When fire crews arrived at the scene on Noble Road, they found the man collapsed in the hallway with burns on 40 percent of his body.
He was taken to Huron Hospital and later flown by Lifeflight to MetroHealth Medical Center.
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