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MOBILE, Ala. — Two Mobile firefighters were injured early this morning fighting a fire at a vacant house.
Steve Huffman, Public Information Officer with the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, said Captain Clay Lyons and Firefighter Pat Henderson were injured when two heavy objects fell from the attic and struck the two men. The fire was reported around 4:00 a.m.. It happened at a vacant home, Huffman said on Lincoln Boulevard in Mobile.
“Firefighters had been told the structure had been vacant for about six months, was used for storage, and that one of the caregivers had been on the scene approximately 8:00 p.m. Friday,” said Huffman in a press release to FOX10News. “While fighting the fire, what is believed to be a heavy wooden object fell from the attic and struck Captain Clay Lyons on the head, knocking him to the ground where he landed on a large screen television and Firefighter Pat Henderson had a heavy object strike him on the foot.”
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