Miami firefighter injured when part of home collapsed
MIAMI - A firefighter was taken to the hospital after he was injured when a home partially collapsed.
According to Miami Fire Rescue, they received word of the residential fire at 278 NE 55th Street just after 5 a.m. on Monday.
Arriving fire crews were met with heavy smoke and flames coming out of the two-story home.
As some firefighters attacked the blaze, others conducted a sweep of the home to make sure there was no one trapped inside. One of the firefighters working on the second floor fell to the first floor due to a partial collapse.
He was taken to the Ryder Trauma Center where he was treated and then released.
Despite falling from the second story of a burning building, that fire fighter only suffered minor burns to his face and moderate burns to his arm.
Firefighters were able to determine that there was no one inside the home and continued their attack from outside the home.
