Family escapes overnight house fire: "It was so hot you could feel it from my house directly across the street"

Two people were injured while escaping a fire early Friday morning.

It happened just after 1:00 near Burleigh and Palmer.

“I never witnessed anything like that. I always saw it on the movies,” said Ronnie Robinson, who lives across the street from the house that was on fire, “it was so hot you could feel it from my house, directly across the street it was almost as if someone had a torch blowing in our face.”

3 people were inside at the time it started. The Battalion Chief said that a man sleeping down stairs on the couch was the first to notice the fire.

“The adult male woke up and smelled the smoke or saw the fire, got out quick made the call,” said Milwaukee Fire Dept. Battalion Chief Michael Blackwood.

That man`s sister who came by the scene a few hours after the fire was out said before her brother ran out, he was able to yell upstairs to his mother and 8 year old nephew. The woman and her grandson had to jump out of a second story window to escape the fire.

The Battalion Chief said bot the young boy and the woman had some broken bones and the woman suffered a minor head injuries, but said they were taken to the hospital and are expected to be ok.

“We're just praying for them and hoping everything turns out for the best for them,” said Robinson.

The Fire Chief said the home suffered about $60, 000 in damage- basically a total loss.

“I'm looking at this now and thinking it’s nothing like what I remembered. It's weird. It's real crazy. I never thought I'd see something like that so close to home,” said Robinson.

The Red Cross is helping the family.

The fire chief says at this point they believe the fire started in the front of the house.

The cause is still under investigation.