Man dead after house fire in Bixby
By KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writer on Sep 2, 2013, at 9:35 AM Updated on 9/02/13 at 3:29 PM
A man died early Monday in a fire that destroyed a Bixby home in the 8500 block of East 169th Street. KENDRICK MARSHALL/Tulsa World
Bixby
The report states that he had his left arm around his father's throat "attempting to choke him out."
Officials with the youth league said the raffle was for a gift certificate at a gun shop, and the winner had to go through the appropriate background checks to redeem the gift certificate and receive the weapon.
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A Bixby man was pronounced dead after an early morning house fire today.
Crews were called to a residence in the 8500 block of East 169th Street South at 3:51 a.m. The house was fully engulfed in flames, Bixby Fire Marshal Joey Wiedel said.
Three people -- two women and one man -- were inside the house at the time of the blaze, the fire official said. Both women were able to escape the residence unharmed but the man, fearing that one of the women was still inside, went back into the burning home in an attempt to make a rescue, Weidel said.
Firefighters later pulled the man's body from the house after being forced to cut a hole in a rear wall near a window to reach him. He was pronounced dead at the scene after EMSA medics failed to revive him. His name hasn’t been released.
The two women were treated at the scene.
Three firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation, Wiedel said.
Scott Poe, who lives just few feet from the blaze, said he was shocked after learning that tragedy had struck his neighbors.
"I'm surprised," Poe said, who was awoken by the commotion outside. "We've lived in this neighborhood for 24 years, and they were decent people."
A cause of the fire hasn’t been determined, Wiedel said.
Bixby
The report states that he had his left arm around his father's throat "attempting to choke him out."
Officials with the youth league said the raffle was for a gift certificate at a gun shop, and the winner had to go through the appropriate background checks to redeem the gift certificate and receive the weapon.
CONTACT THE REPORTER
918-581-8386
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