VIDEO/PHOTOS: An investigation is underway into a huge fire that destroyed two homes and damaged a third in Luzerne County.
28/22 News spoke to a man who says heโs lucky to be alive after jumping out of a window, escaping the blaze.
What was left of an apartment building on South Wyoming and East Walnut Street in Hazleton came toppling down early Wednesday after flames ripped through it, leaving destruction overnight.
Emergency crews battled the fire and hotspots for more than ten hours, and the blaze spread to two nearby homes.
โThe fire had a tremendous head start on us. We probably arrived on scene within two minutes of dispatch, and the fire was already, the second and third floors, which were already fully involved and showing out of all sides of the structure, so it definitely had a tremendous head start on us,โ stated Chief Donald Leshko, City of Hazleton Fire Department.
Chief Leshko says nine people in surrounding homes are now displaced, but as for the building where the fire originated, the owner told him it was vacant. However, three people were inside and injured.
