DETROIT (WXYZ) — A Detroit firefighter was hospitalized after fighting a house fire early Monday morning.
VIDEO: DPD fights fire at home on city's west side
A spokesperson for the department tells us the fire started around 4:30 a.m. at a home in the 15000 block of Stansbury, with firefighters getting to the scene in less than five minutes.
That spokesperson said that a firefighter was transported to a nearby hospital, after he suffered a medical emergency while fighting the fire.
That firefighter is alert and talking; he is expected to make a full recovery. That firefighter was the only person injured in the fire at the two-story home. We're told no one was home when the fire started.
No word yet on a cause of the fire, that's under investigation by the department.
