By EMS1 Staff
ROCKFORD, Mich. — A paramedic’s house was destroyed in a fire Saturday night.
WOODTV.com reported that Rockford Ambulance paramedic Rich Keizer got a text from a colleague about the fire.
“What’s your address?” the text said. “I’m like, ‘138 Oak Street’,” Keizer said. “And my very next thing was going to be like, ‘Is something happening in the neighborhood?’”
Keizer said he was concerned about the family living with him – his niece, her husband and their baby. They were home at the time of the fire, but escaped unharmed.
Keizer said his niece’s husband saw a flicker outside a basement window; a cigarette butt was in a canister. Before he could grab a hose to put out the fire, it grew out of control and spread to the house next door. The neighbor’s home belongs to a nurse.
“This could’ve so quickly turned into an injury or a death,” Keizer said.
A GoFundMe page was set up to help Keizer