A man has died, and a woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries, after a house fire in Adelaide’s south. Investigations have ruled the cause of the fire as undetermined.
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00:00 A devastating scene after a fire tore through a Hackenwest home this morning.
00:07 "Unfortunately found a person on a bed inside and we've removed that person and placed them in the care of the ambulance people."
00:19 Firefighters were called to Amsterdam Street around 8.30am and arrived to find the front room of the house engulfed in flames.
00:27 A 61-year-old man was pulled out of the burning property but died at the scene.
00:33 "I saw them carrying a deceased man out so I put him on the lawn and did CPR."
00:39 The other occupant, a 46-year-old woman, escaped through a window and was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
00:47 "I just heard an explosion when I was in the kitchen and looked out the lounge room window and a tonne of smoke was already happening."
00:57 The occupants pets, two dogs and two cats were also killed in the blaze. Its cause has been deemed undetermined.
01:05 "The damage is significant, it would be over $200,000."
01:09 For more information visit www.fema.gov
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