KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A firefighter was injured while battling a house fire Wednesday morning.
FOX4KC reproted that the injured firefighter, a 12-year veteran of the fire department, had lacerations to his eyes.
The house was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived on the scene, and fighting the fire was additionally challenging because of live electricity lines, according to the report.
“It was an abandoned house. I know there has been a lot of vandalism going on with it,” said the neighbor named Chet. “My roommate woke me up and said, ‘Take a look at this.’ Flames in the sky. It was an accident waiting to happen, and it did.”