CHARLOTTE — Two firefighters are recovering after part of a Steele Creek home collapsed during a fire Wednesday night.
It began just after 9 p.m. on the 16200 block of Fieldstone Trace.
Fire officials said a mayday call was made when two firefighters were trapped in the rear side of the home after the roof collapsed. However, those firefighters were quickly extracted from the home.
According to neighbors, a family of four lives at the property, and it isn’t the first time flames tore through the house. Thankfully, everyone inside made it out safely.
Multiple departments responded to the fire. Neighbors said the scene escalated quickly.
“Really scary,” Carlos Kienas who lives in the neighborhood told Channel 9’s Miana Massey. “A lot of trucks, a lot of vehicles from the fire departments, a lot of firemen going up and down the street.”
Kienas said the father in the home acted fast to get his family to safety.
“He saw flames on the second floor through the window,” he said. “He told his wife to take the kids out. It was so much smoke he had to open the window, go through the window to the second floor.”
But as Charlotte Fire crews worked to put out the flames, part of the home collapsed. Two firefighters were trapped inside.
Bill Suthard says close calls are a reminder of just how dangerous the job can be.
“We can walk out that door that morning and not come home at the end of the day, so what we do to prepare for that is we train, we practice and we, kind of, come up with scenarios, and all of that came to play,” Suthard said.
The cause of the fire and the identities of the injured firefighters still aren’t clear.
This is a developing story. Check back with wsoctv.com for updates.
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