HOMESTEAD, Pa. — An 81-year-old woman and a family with a 2-year-old child escaped safely after a fire spread through four homes in Homestead early Monday morning.
The Homestead Fire Chief said the fire started in one of two vacant homes next door.
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“I saw the reflection of flames in the house across the street,” Kristin said. “I ran downstairs, opened the front door and looked to the right, and before I could look I felt the heat,” she said. “I looked to the right and there were just flames pouring out of the house.”
The Bakers said the home had belonged to Sean Baker’s grandparents.
Next door, Barbara Eberett said she tried to use a stair lift to get out of her home, but the fire intensified too quickly.
“The fire got so intense that I just left the stair lift and came out the door, and I fell out the door and fell down the stairs and rolled in the grass,” Eberett said.
Sean Baker said the families escaped around the same time.
“We all kind of came out at the same time, which was kind of a miracle,” he said. “She’s 81 years old and she was running out. She actually fell a couple times, but we were able to get her out.”
Although everyone made it out safely, Eberett said the experience left her shaken.
“I’ve never seen anything like this ever,” she said.
The Allegheny County fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.
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