South Carolina firefighter fractures bones falling through porch, keeps fighting fire

  • Source: WSOC-TV
  • Published: 09/01/2015 12:00 AM

A Lancaster County firefighter kept battling a house fire Friday night even after he was injured when the front porch collapsed beneath him. Capt. Ray Ingram, 33, with the Shiloh Zion Volunteer Fire Department fell through a concrete porch while fighting a fire at an abandoned house on Monroe Highway. Ingram caught his fall on camera thanks to a camera he attaches to his helmet. Another firefighter pulled Ingram out, but despite breaking his tail bone and a vertebrae, Ingram continued fighting the fire. “I knew I was hurt, but I didn't know to what extent. We still had work to do,” Ingram said. Ingram was then taken to Springs Memorial Hospital, where a CT scan revealed he suffered a fractured vertebra and a fractured tailbone.



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