Man found inside burning abandoned home in North Miami Beach

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.

This story was originally published March 18, 2015 at 9:02 AM with the headline "Man found inside burning abandoned home in North Miami Beach."