ORLANDO, Fla. – An elderly man was killed early Friday in an Orlando house fire, according to police.
The fire broke out around 4 a.m. at a home in the 500 block of West Washington Street.
According to Orlando police, paramedics in a Rural-Metro ambulance spotted the blaze and entered the house. They tried to rescue a man inside, but the house started to collapse and they lost verbal contact with the man, police said.
Orlando firefighters extinguished the blaze, and 76-year-old Donald Jackson was found dead inside the home, police said.
No one else was inside the house.
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