VIDEO: Nearly 30 firefighters and seven fire engines responded to a structure fire that displaced an elderly couple and caused extensive damage near 900 South early Friday morning. Residents in the neighborhood awoke to a battery of fire engines and ladder trucks pulling into South 550 East a few minutes before 6 a.m. after a call to 911 reported that a house was on fire.
Crews arrived to find flames coming from the garage area. After cutting through the garage door, firefighters began an aggressive attack to contain the blaze, St. George Fire Battalion Chief Robert Hooper said.
“We had to cut through that door and then just filet it open,” he said, “because a lot of times the fire melts the mechanisms and the door won’t slide open.”