Firefighters were fortunately able to extinguish a Dewey home fire before anyone was injured or irreparable damage was done to the building Monday night, Dec. 2.
Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority (CAFMA) crews responded to the home in the 14000 block of E. Bradshaw Road at about 11:30 p.m., according to a CAFMA news release.
They found smoke coming from the upstairs window of an apartment. Standing at an adjacent window was a man needing help getting out of the building.
A crew quickly entered the building, rescued the man and extinguished the fire, the release states.
The man, who was in his 60s, reportedly had a medical emergency and knocked over a tank-top propane heater he was using to heat a room with onto the apartment’s wood floor, the release states.