PITTSBURGH — A man is in the hospital with second-degree burns after he was shocked by an electrical wire in Pittsburgh on Monday afternoon.
Pittsburgh police, fire and medics responded to a home on Greenfield Avenue for the reported shock injury and fire in the building.
Preliminary information from the fire department’s investigation found that two men were working on the gutters of the home when the gutters hit the main power line. This resulted in one of the men being shocked and sparked a fire inside.
A teen girl was inside the home when the fire started. Firefighters escorted her out safely.
Once Duquesne Light Company cut power to the home, firefighters and paramedics were able to bring the man down from the roof safely. He was taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition for the burns on his right side.
The fire was extinguished by 4:45 p.m.
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