TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. — One person is in critical condition after firefighters found the occupant inside a burning home in Timmonsville on Saturday evening and carried them out, Florence County Fire Rescue said.
The call came in around 6 p.m. as a report of an outside fire in the 200 block of North Keith Street, inside the Timmonsville town limits. Crews arriving on scene instead found flames showing from the second floor of a two-story single-family house.
Firefighters went inside to search the home and located one person, whom they brought outside and treated until ambulance crews from Florence County Emergency Medical Services took over. The patient was taken to a hospital nearby with injuries described as critical.
Crews kept working the blaze until it was out and stayed afterward to make sure the scene was fully under control. Fire Rescue has not said what started the fire; the cause and origin are under investigation.
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