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Fire breaks out in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood <p>BREAKING: One person is taken to the hospital after a fire in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood on Tuesday.</p>

One person hospitalized following house fire in Homewood One person was rushed to the hospital after an early morning fire in Homewood. It was on Hamilton Avenue between Collier Street and North Braddock Avenue Fire crews got here very quickly, within a minute or two of the first call to 911 coming in. The nearest fire station is about a minute from here on Hamilton Avenue. Firefighters were still here hours later – putting out hotspots. "I go back to the back door, and the whole back of the third floor is engulfed in flames," Alvin Dean, who lives next door to the house that caught fire, said. Dean then knew for sure that something was very wrong. "The whole back of the third floor – the second floor… just fire coming out of it," Dean said. Dean called 911. He'd already been beaten to it. A Pittsburgh fire captain said a police crew had actually noticed it and called it in. "The next thing I know, the fire truck was coming," Dean said. Firefighters worked on Hamilton Avenue for hours. They fought the fire from the inside, and then from the outside after it got too dangerous. The Pittsburgh Fire captain KDKA spoke with says one person was taken to the hospital. Dean said it was hi…

Fire breaks out at club in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood Fire breaks out at club in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood Crews were called to the scene early Thursday morning Fire breaks out at club in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood Crews were called to the scene early Thursday morning EVA? WELL, LUCKILY, I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK WITH DISPATCH BRIEFLY THIS MORNING. THEY TELL ME THAT NO ONE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FROM THIS FIRE. I DO WANT TO GET OUT OF THE WAY SO YOU CAN GET A LIVE LOOK AT THIS VERY ACTIVE SCENE. YOU CAN SEE THAT SO MUCH SMOKE IS COMING OUT OF THIS HOUSE. THIS IS RIGHT ON BRUSHTON AVENUE AND BENNETT STREET ON THE BORDER OF NORTH AND SOUTH HOMEWOOD. NOW, WE ACTUALLY ARRIVED HERE WITH SOME FIRE CREWS WHENEVER WE GOT HERE. JUST A VERY LARGE FIRST RESPONDER PRESENCE IN THE AREA. AGAIN, CREWS WERE COMING AS WE WERE COMING UP HERE AS WELL. SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THEY’RE FOCUSING ON THIS BACK PART OF THE HOME, BUT STILL JUST A VERY SMOKY SITUATION. I DID KIND OF A PERIMETER LAP AROUND TO KIND OF SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON. I DID SEE SOME PEOPLE STANDING OUT FRONT OF THE HOME. EVERYONE DID APPEAR TO BE OKAY. AGAIN, NO ONE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AT THIS POINT, BUT STILL…

One person hospitalized after fire in the Homewood South neighborhood ... (File Photo of a Fire Background) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Homewood, PA) One person was rushed to the hospital after an early morning fire in the Homewood South neighborhood of Pittsburgh yesterday that destroyed a house . It was spotted on the 7500 block of Hamilton Avenue between Collier Street and North Braddock Avenue . Firefighters worked on Hamilton Avenue for hours on both the inside and the outside after getting called at around 4:25 a.m . The person that was hospitalized was the brother of Alvin Dean . Dean li ves next door to the house which caught fire. The fire captain that KDKA spoke with said there was a partial collapse on the right side of the house .