Miami-Dade County

Man found inside burning abandoned home in North Miami Beach

BY WALTER MICHOT and Carli Teproff

wmichot@MiamiHerald.com

March 18, 2015 09:02 AM

Rescuers saved an injured man from a fire at an abandoned building in the 1100 block of NE 165th St. on Wednesday.
Rescuers saved an injured man from a fire at an abandoned building in the 1100 block of NE 165th St. on Wednesday. WALTER MICHOT MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Rescuers saved an injured man from a fire at an abandoned building in the 1100 block of NE 165th St. on Wednesday. WALTER MICHOT MIAMI HERALD STAFF

Miami-Dade firefighters working a blaze at a boarded-up house found a man inside as they were doing a search inside early Wednesday morning.

The fire consumed the abandoned home in the 1110 block of Northeast 165th Street in North Miami Beach at about 2:30 a.m. The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

It was not clear what started the fire or why the man was inside, according to Miami-Dade Fire spokesman Arnold Piedrahita Jr. He the said the home appeared to be abandoned. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Daniel Pizzaro, a neighbor, told Miami Herald news partner CBS4 that he saw, “flames shooting out of the garage and it took them a while to be able to get in there because of the boarding up.”

“I was expecting more bodies to come out of there,” he told the station.

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