A Homewood house was reduced to ruins early this morning after flames took hold, ravaging the structure completely, Pittsburgh firefighters were called to an inferno on the 7500 block of Hamilton Avenue at about 4:25 a.m., and upon arrival, they discovered the house ablaze at all levels, as detailed by WPXI.
A neighboring resident named Alvin, relayed his early-morning encounter with the fire telling WPXI, "I woke up and smelled smoke. I woke up and asked my brother, ‘What’s burning?’ He said, ‘nothing’s burning.’ I said, ‘Well, something’s burning somewhere.’ So I go to my front door, I opened up my front door, and I see smoke. So I said, ‘Check the back.’ He goes out the back door and the back of the house is engulfed on the third floor."
Tim Leech, Pittsburgh Police Fire Captain, announced that the gutted house had been abandoned as the fire ravaged it; the investigation into the fire's cause is still ongoing as reported by WPXI. In the wake of the blaze, one individual required hospitalization due to smoke inhalation, which was confirmed to CBS News by Fire Captain, although the specifics of the victim's condition have not been disclosed, Dean stated it was his brother "He couldn't breathe; the smoke got him," he said during KDKA's reporting on the fire incident.
