A Cleveland Firefighter was injured Tuesday morning after crews battled a house fire on Cleveland’s West Side. The fire started around 3 a.m. inside a home on West 136th Street and Lorain Avenue.
Cleveland Fire confirmed to News 5 that a firefighter fell from the attic to the second floor while responding to the call. He was able to walk out of the home, and EMS rushed him to Metro Hospital, where he is in serious condition with neck pain, according to Cleveland Fire Public Information Officer Lieutenant Mike Norman. Cleveland EMS tells us no one inside the home was hurt.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire. Lieutenant Norman says it’s been a hectic and frankly brutal winter already. Just last Wednesday, he says, crews responded to five structure fires…