Three people were injured after they jumped from a burning home early Sunday morning.
Firefighters were called to a home with an apartment on the second floor around 4:35 a.m. in the 1000 block of Second Avenue in Bristol Township’s Croydon section. Numerous callers had told dispatchers that people were trapped in the home, officials said.
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Three adults in the apartment dropped two children to neighbors waiting below and then the three adults leapt from the burning home, suffered injuries. Two of the adults were taken by medics to the hospital and a third adult was transported by a friend, officials said.
Firefighters battled the flames, but the house was destroyed in the fire, Fire Marshal Kevin Dippolito said.
The fire marshal’s investigation found that the blaze started on a second-floor balcony in the area of a can used for cigarette butts.
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“Big flames were coming from the windows of [the house] when the firemen got there,” a nearby resident told LevittownNow.com.
A detached garage with an apartment above it on the property suffered damage from the nearby heat of the fire.
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The Cornwells, Edgely, Levittown No. 2, Newportville, Third District, and Union fire companies assisted Croydon firefighters. The Bucks County Rescue Squad and Bensalem EMS were on the scene.
