FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — New video obtained by Local 10 News shows the moments when Fort Lauderdale firefighters saved a dog from an apartment that erupted in flames on Tuesday morning.
The two people who live at the apartment on Northwest 12th Avenue are wondering what’s next after they were forced out of their home by the fire.
Alberta Wiggins, who lives at the home, told Local 10’s Byron Tollefson that she doesn’t know what’s next for herself and her family.
“I have no idea. I don’t know. He (is) going to the hospital. I got the key but I don’t wanna go back in there,” she said.
Video shows Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue crew members carrying out the dog from inside the smokey home and returning it into the arms of its owner.
Authorities say the man who owned the home was taken to Broward Health Medical Center after inhaling smoke and is expected to be OK.
Tollefson got a look inside the apartment after authorities said the fire started in the kitchen, where a pot had been left on the stove.
American Red Cross was at the scene helping Wiggins and her family with the next steps.
Authorities respond to second fire in Fort Lauderdale
FLFR fire rescue crew had a busy Tuesday morning after responding to another fire at Northwest 53rd Street around 11 a.m.
FLFR officials said the fire started on the front porch a spread to a home in the area.
They said nobody was at the home at the time but those who live there will be displaced.
The cause of both fires remain under investigation.
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