Father suffers severe burns shielding his 2-year-old son from raging house fire

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A father is on a ventilator with severe burns after shielding his 2-year-old son during a raging house fire in the Mount Hope area this past weekend.

The Dehnz family was on the second floor of their duplex when the chaos broke out. On Sunday afternoon, not long before thick black smoke and flames poured out of the home on Carlos Street, the family was getting ready to go out to eat.

“They were upstairs getting ready as a family when they heard an explosion downstairs,” Kolenya Dempsey said…

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