Crews respond to reports of house fire in Sacramento

FROM FIRE CREWS. FIRST UP, THOUGH, BREAKING NEWS COMING RIGHT NOW. FIRE CREWS HAVE RESCUED A MAN FROM A HOUSE FIRE IN NORTH SACRAMENTO. THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN THE AREA OF CENTER AVENUE. THAT’S OFF NORTH GATE BOULEVARD. THAT’S WHERE WE FIND KCRA 3’S PEYTON HEADLEE LIVE RIGHT NOW. PEYTON. YEAH. SO WE ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE THAT WAS ON FIRE JUST A LITTLE BIT EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. WE KNOW THAT THREE PEOPLE NORMALLY LIVE HERE. IT’S NOT CLEAR IF ALL OF THEM WERE HOME AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE. WE DO KNOW THAT ONE ELDERLY MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR SMOKE INHALATION. RIGHT NOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND SOME FIREFIGHTERS FROM THE SACRAMENTO FIRE DEPARTMENT TAKING AWAY SOME OF THE HOSES AND KIND OF GOING THROUGH THE MOP UP STAGES HERE. I DID JUST TALK TO A BATTALION CHIEF WHO SAID THE FIRE IS PRIMARILY HAS WAS PRIMARILY IN THE BACK OF THE HOUSE. SO THAT IS WHERE MOST OF THE DAMAGE IS THAT YOU CAN’T SEE FROM WHERE WE’RE AT RIGHT NOW. HE DID SAY THAT ONE PERSON, THAT ELDERLY MAN, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. THEIR CONDITION IS DOING A LITTLE BIT BETTER. HE ALSO SAID FIVE PUPPIES AND TWO DOGS WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE HOUSE ALIVE. BUT ONE DOG DIDN’T MAKE IT OUT. AND THAT DOG DIED HERE IN THIS FIRE. AND STILL A LOT OF FIRE CREWS ON SCENE HERE AS THEY’RE GOING THROUGH MOPPING THIS UP, YOU CAN SEE THERE’S A LOT OF STUFF IN THE BACKYARD, A JET SKI. IT LOOKS LIKE A TRAILER FULL OF CARDBOARD BOXES. SO THIS FIRE LIKELY COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT BIGGER THAN IT WAS. BUT RIGHT NOW, WE KNOW THAT ONE PERSON, AN ELDERLY MAN, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR SMOKE INHALATION, BUT HIS CONDITION HAS SINCE IMPROVED. SINCE BEING TAKEN OUT OF THIS HOUSE. WE’

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