By Loretta Kalb
The Sacramento Bee
RIO LINDA, Calif. — A Sacramento City firefighter responding to a Rio Linda garage blaze Sunday was taken by ambulance to UC Davis Medical Center with second-degree blisters on his fingers.
The firefighter suffered the injuries after he touched a gloved hand to a burned metal garage door, said Jeff Metzinger, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District assistant chief.
Capt. Jim Doucette of the Sacramento Fire Department said firefighter Trampas Shook, who was part of a crew backing up Sacramento Metro Fire District personnel, was believed to have suffered only minor injuries.
The fire on Beamer Way near Cherri Lynn Avenue was reported at 3:14 p.m. after the elderly occupant returned home from the grocery store and parked his car in the garage.
Metzinger said the fire burned through the home’s phone line. The man used a neighbor’s telephone to call for help, then enlisted his aid to carry his wife in her wheelchair down steps.
The garage, and the car parked in it, were a total loss, Metzinger said. But he said the home and the owners were unhurt.
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