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Three people have been left without a place to call home after a house in Pompano Beach erupted in flames.
7News cameras captured charred walls, windows blown and a damaged roof at the home located along the 4100 block of Northeast 12th Terrace, Saturday afternoon.
The structure is still standing, but fire officials said the house is destroyed inside.
“There’s going to be a family displaced from the house. Conditions are unlivable at the time,” said Pompano Beach Fire Rescue Chief Dave Sheflin.
Speaking with 7News hours later, RH said he rents a room at the house, and he and two others escaped the fierce fire.
Honore said the owner of the property woke him up.
“Yeah, I was inside. He hit my door, ‘too, too, too, too, too,”” he said. “I said, ‘What happened. [He said], ‘No, I got fire, I got fire’ … and gave me a bucket.”
Together, H said, he and the owner of the house tried to take out the flames, but it was hard to breathe.
“The fire pushed me back. A lot of smoke,” he said.
It was at that point when, H said, they had to get out.
“I’m happy to get outside,” said H.
Crews who battled the blaze said the fire was massive.
“Crews arrived to find heavy fire involvement inside the house,” said Sheflin. “They quickly applied their hose line, a quick attack in the house, and we saved about half the house. but the fire was well involved at the time.”
As for H, he said he’s lucky to be alive, but now he and two others are displaced.
“It’s not good for me,” he said.
No one was hurt.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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