A Stone Mountain-area house fire this morning in which a 60-year-old woman was injured is still under investigation, according to DeKalb County fire officials.
This evening, DeKalb fire Capt. Eric Jackson said he wasn’t sure of the woman’s current condition, but she was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment this morning.
Fire crews received a report of an entrapment at the home on Stonehaven Way, Jackson said.
They arrived at the home shortly after 6:30 a.m. and “encountered heavy flame involvement on approximately 75 percent of the house,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Firefighters tried to enter through the front door, but “there was just far too much flame and smoke conditions, so we went around to the back side,” Jackson said.
When they raised a ladder to an upstairs window, “we found the victim, an elderly female, at the base of the window,” he said. Firefighters brought the woman down the ladder.
A second person, a 58-year-old man who lived in the basement of the house, made it out on his own, but was also taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. Roxie Polain-King told The AJC she is the sister of the man in the basement and the rescued woman. She said six people were in the home at the time of the fire. The remaining occupants made it out of the home without the assistance of emergency personnel, Polain-King said.
Jackson said the split-level home was extensively damaged.
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