> 'The house is on fire!': Teen saved by neighbor in house fire called a 'total loss'
'The house is on fire!': Teen saved by neighbor in house fire called a 'total loss'
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A family is searching for a new place to live after losing everything in a fire. The flames were contained to the attic of their Hillsborough County home but did enough damage to force them to start over.
Sunday night, Adelle and Lee Febus were at work when they got a call from their son.
“He said, ‘Mom, Mom, the house on fire!’” Adelle says. “I was just shocked. I couldn't believe it.”
Their son, Jeremy, was in his bedroom playing video games, when he noticed smoke coming through his air conditioning vent in the ceiling. He fought through thick smoke trying to find the source of the fire but couldn’t see it.
“The neighbor had to pull me out because I was suffocating in there,” he says.
Kristine Bostick is the neighbor who saw the flames shooting up through the roof.
“I ran straight over here and called 911,” she says. "I started banging on their front door. He had bright red shorts on because you couldn't really see; the smoke was already so thick in there. All I saw was the flash of his shorts.”
The fire collapsed the ceiling and the flames were concentrated near their A/C unit. Lee says the fire investigator on scene that night told him it started in the air handler. We reached out to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue on Friday to confirm the cause but haven’t heard back yet.
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/teen-saved-neighbor-carrollwood-house-fire/67-1da9ee82-5c63-4c23-bdaa-133af89f833a