VIDEO: A man is dead after a fire destroyed a Winston-Salem home Monday morning.
The fire started around 4:30 a.m. on Sunnyside Avenue.
Investigators told WGHP the fire is still under investigation, and because of the extent of the damage to the home, it could take a while before they find out the cause and origin of the fire.
In the meantime, neighbors are trying to come to terms with the tragedy.
“I just heard a loud boom and then I heard a woman coming over here, screaming help and their house is on fire,” 13-year-old Thomas Gossett said.
Gossett lives down the street from where flames engulfed a home.
His whole family rushed out of the house.
“We just saw fire trucks and fire trucks,” Judy Hollerman said.
Hollerman and her husband were woken up by the sirens and also went outside to watch the firefighters try to put out the flames.