By Paul Bowers
The Post and Courier
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — North Charleston firefighter John Bolton was released Wednesday afternoon from the Joseph M. Still Burn Unit in Augusta.
Bolton was one of three firefighters who were taken to the hospital Monday afternoon after fighting a house fire in the Hollow Oaks neighborhood near Otranto Road. The other two, Fire Capt. William Odum and Firefighter Antwon Green, were treated and released from Medical University Hospital on Monday.
Bianca Sancic, public information officer for the Fire Department, said Bolton was at home with his family Wednesday afternoon.
Beth Auer, who lives around the corner from the house that burned, took photographs as Bolton and another firefighter came out of the house’s second-story window. A photo of Bolton was published in Wednesday’s Post and Courier.
“There was a small explosion, it sounded like, and then you see the second-story window being either kicked or blown out,” Auer said. “It looked like they were trying to get their face masks off.”
Auer and another Hollow Oaks homeowner said a woman living next door to the burned house was initially in the backyard with the resident of the house, helping her use a garden hose to fight the flames that eventually claimed half the roof.
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