PHOENIX — A man is in critical condition after a house fire in Phoenix on Thursday evening.
Crews were called to a home near 35th and Dunlap avenues before 6 p.m. for reports of a house fire.
As firefighters conducted a search and rescue, they located a man in his 50s inside the home and rescued him from the fire.
The fire was extinguished and the man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
It is believed that the fire originated in a bedroom that did not have a working smoke detector, according to Phoenix fire.
Investigators are on scene conducting an investigation.
