Mich. Firefighter Critical After Bailing From Blaze

July 17, 2011
Flint Firefighter Gerald Hunt is being treated for lung tissue damage, second-degree burns and fractured ribs.

A Flint firefighter is in critical condition after being forced to bail from a blaze late Friday night, according to The Flint Journal.

Firefighter Gerald Hunt jumped from a second-story window of the house on Broadway after crews responded to the fire at approximately 11:20 p.m., Battalion Chief John Babb told the newspaper.

Hunt was transported to Hurley Medical Center and is being treated for lung tissue damage, second-degree burns and fractured ribs.

Babb said he has been conscious and alert.

Several other firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion, burns, a back injury and electrocution.

The initial call for the fire indicated that there was a possible entrapment, but the man who lives in the home was not found inside.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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