WILMINGTON, Del. (KYW Newsradio) — An early-morning rowhouse fire claimed the lives of two men in Wilmington, Delaware.
Officials say the fire started around 12:30 a.m. at a home in the middle of the row along Clifford Brown Walk near 10th Street in Wilmington. Two men died in the two-story house. Neighbors say they saw them screaming for help from a window.
Three people escaped from the home. There are reports that a dog also died in the fire.
The houses on either side of the property sustained smoke and fire damage, and the people who lived there have been displaced.
"I hope we could get it repaired, but I don't know," said Valerie Brown, one of those residents. "It's just sad, sad, sad, sad — with the two lives that got lost."
Tara Lewis was in bed when her roommate start yelling about a fire down the street.
"The whole house was on fire. The front of the house, the windows were bursting out, the electric wires were on fire. There were sparks. I seen the ceiling falling down and collapsed. There was a poor man in there trying to get out. He didn't make it out. It was a horrible sight. I knew the one man personally," she said.
Fire officials have not released the identities of the victims, and there is no word yet on the cause of the fire. Neighbors say the the house did not have electricity, but it is still unknown if there were working smoke detectors in the house.