CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — At least two people are hurt after a house fire in Forest Park on Monday morning. The fire may have started after power lines fell on top of the house.
Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes arrived on the scene on Dunwoody Drive as firefighters were putting out hotspots.
The cold quickly turned water into ice as firefighters sprayed a burning house.
Forest Park Battalion Chief David Flagg said two of six people who were living in the home had to be taken to the hospital for injuries related to the fire.
All the latest developments on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4:00 p.m.
Neighbors showed video of the flames overnight that woke up the neighborhood.
Flagg said neighbors woke up the family to get them out.
A neighbor told Fernandes he saw a woman who lived here jump out of the second-story window.
He said she was trapped and had no other way out because the fire had taken over the entrance on the side of the home.
Once the woman jumped, some other neighbors had to help get her away from the flames.
News Drone 2 flew over what’s left of the home as investigators try to figure out what started the fire while the family was sleeping. They told Fernandes that fallen power lines could have been the cause.
The wind was blowing so hard, firefighters evacuated this woman’s house right next door.
“It was outrageous - I mean never seen a fire like that in my life,” Lilly Morgan said.
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