A sleeping pod at a North Portland alternative shelter turned into “a mass of burning material that was about 30 feet tall” on Monday evening, according to Rick Graves, a spokesperson for the Portland Fire Bureau.
The person inside the pod at the time, Gary Scott Young, 33, and his dog were killed in the inferno, according to additional information released Wednesday afternoon.
Portland firefighters arrived six minutes after being called to the scene, but it was already too late to attempt a rescue, Graves wrote in an email to The Oregonian/OregonLive…