Three people were sent to a hospital, two were trauma patients, after a house fire Thursday morning at a gated community near Boca Raton, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.
Fire gutted their home in the Wedgewood Estates community just west of the Boca Raton city limits.
Chopper 5 was above the house on Eagle Run Drive shortly after the fire was extinguished. Neighbor Harold Gretzky said three people, including an elderly woman, lived at the home.
"People are shocked," Gretzky said. "This is probably the worst thing that has ever happened since the development was founded in 1987."
Gretzky said the entire subdivision could see the flames and hear the sirens shortly after the fire broke out. The fire was contained to the home and did not spread.