A fire broke out in the basement of a Baltimore home late Monday afternoon, and one person was found dead inside.
Firefighters were called to the home in the 5000 block of Chalgrove Avenue in Baltimore shortly after 4 p.m., according to Commander Roman Clark of the Baltimore City Fire Department.
Inside the building a man in his fifties was found dead. It was not immediately clear if the man died because of the fire or of other causes.
A neighbor saw the smoke and went to help. He said he saw a woman on her porch and sprang to action.
"I helped take her off the back porch we kicked in the basement door and all of the flames started shooting out and she was yelling that her son was in the basement," Spanky Johnson said.
Crews on scene of a fire in the 5000 Block of Chalgrove Avenue in Baltimore. Waiting to hear from fire officials right now. @ABC2NEWS pic.twitter.com/FVX3qTKfbX
— Nadia Singh (@NadiaSinghNews) December 12, 2016
Baltimore Fire: mother and son pulled from house fire. Son about 50, died. If from fire would be 12 fires deaths this year @ABC2NEWS pic.twitter.com/61aJD2680x
— Nadia Singh (@NadiaSinghNews) December 12, 2016
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