Disabled Man Burned, Rescued In San Jose House Fire

SAN JOSE, CA -- A disabled man suffered serious burns this afternoon in a two-alarm fire that damaged a house in central San Jose, fire officials said.

The fire was reported about 2:17 p.m. in a house in the 2100 block of Lanai Avenue just east of U.S. Highway 101, according to San Jose Fire Department Capt. Brad Cloutier. When firefighters arrived, two residents who had escaped the house said a third person, a disabled man in his 60s, was still in the house.

Firefighters went into rescue mode and got the disabled man out of the house. He was taken to the Valley Medical Center burn unit with what Cloutier called "pretty significant burns." One of the two other inhabitants of the house sustained a hand injury, which was treated at the scene.

The cause of the fire, which was mostly limited to one room and out within 15 minutes, was still under investigation tonight. An arson investigator was called to the scene, Cloutier said, but that is standard in any fire that involved an injury.

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