VIDEO: A woman who was burning palms from Palm Sunday caught her house on fire Monday morning, Channel 11 was told. Flames spread to the house next door.
The fire broke out around 10:30 a.m. along Rinne Street in the city’s Arlington neighborhood.
“You couldn’t even see in the house. There was so much smoke,” said Brian Milligan a painter with Pittsburgh Painting, and one of the men who rushed inside.
Channel 11 News obtained exclusive cell phone footage of what the home looked like this morning when crews were called, it showed smoke billowing from the rooftop.
When emergency crews arrived at Rhinne Street in Arlington, two homes were fully engulfed with flames and they found a woman in her 70s suffering from multiple burns to her arm.
She was rushed to the hospital and will be okay. No one was in the home next door.