Crews pulled a partially paralyzed man from a burning Philadelphia home early Thursday morning, but he did not survive.
Firefighters rescued the 79-year-old man from a home on the 1800 block of Roselyn Street in the city's Ogontz neighborhood just after 1:15 a.m., officials said.
Authorities rushed the victim, who suffered 2nd degree burns over 18 percent of his body, to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:09 a.m.
The military veteran's death marks the first fire fatality in Philly in 2015.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the blaze, which mostly affected the back of the Roselyn Street home.
