HOMESTEAD, FLA. (WSVN) - Authorities are investigating two separate house fires in Miami-Dade County that claimed the lives of two people.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews responded to a fire along the 1200 block of Northwest 18th Street in Homestead at around 12:55 p.m., Tuesday, where someone died from their injuries.
“It’s heartbreaking,” neighbor Sandra Nesbitt said. “You know, it hit close to home.”
Crystal Araniva, a neighbor, described seeing one of the homeowners desperately trying to get inside.
“At first, they thought no one was inside the house,” Araniva said. “I’ve seen that he felt devastated because he tried to rush in.”
While authorities have released limited information about the fire, neighbors said their community will wrap their arms around the man who lives at the home, who, they said, lost a loved one. They said he has done a lot for the community.
“The outpouring will be amazing because he has always been there for the community, and I know everyone is going to wrap their arms around him as a family,” Nesbitt said.
In an unrelated fire investigation in North Miami, authorities there said crews rushed a 53-year-old woman to the hospital, but she did not survive.
The fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at a home off Northwest 120th Terrace.
The cause of the fires remains under investigation.
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