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One person has been taken to the hospital after a house fire in south Wichita.
Crews responded to the scene in the 1900 block of South Santa Fe around 6:20 p.m. Friday. Firefighters arrived to find flames showing from the home.
“They called me at work and they told me my house was on fire and you need to get back to the house like real quick,” said homeowner Vincent Wimes.
Wimes grew up in the house and took it over when his mom died in 2005.
“I first thought I was dreaming,” said Wimes. “I didn’t even think it was real. I was like I’m going to wake up anytime. This is not really happening. I was in shock more than anything.”
Wimes feels lucky he and his children were not home at the time of the fire. But he says two other people were.
“My friend was staying with me and his girlfriend. I guess she was asleep or something like that and she didn’t know the fire was going on and that’s how she ended up getting burn,” said Wimes.
Wichita Fire Battalion Chief Sid Newby says that woman was critically injured.
“Crews came in, did a really good aggressive interior attack along with a search and found the occupant and got her out quickly,” said Newby.
Newby says crews gave the woman medical care at the scene, then transported her to the hospital. Investigators said the woman is expected to survive.
With extensive damage to the front of the house, and throughout the inside, Wimes worries there will not be anything left to remember the life he had in the home.
“I’ve got old china, pictures from my mother, old pictures from my childhood, everything. I mean kids clothes, everything is gone. We’ve got to start all the way over,” Wimes said.
Investigators said a cooking fire started the blaze. The fire caused about $110,000 in damage.
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