TWINSBURG, Ohio (WJW) – Firefighters rescued an 8-month-old baby from a two-alarm house fire in Twinsburg, Ohio.

The first 911 call for help came in around 12:20 p.m. on Sunday. The homeowner was panicked and out of breath, saying, “Hello, hello, we have a fire in the basement with a baby in the basement.”

He had already escaped the home with two other young children and kept trying to get back inside to save the baby in a basement bedroom, but the smoke and heat was too intense.

“I can’t, I can’t get down there,” he said, breathing heavily.

Dispatchers alerted other departments for mutual aid and Twinsburg police arrived on Simsbury Drive. They rushed into the house, trying to rescue the baby, but also were driven back by the intense smoke.

Twinsburg firefighter Joshua Jarzab said wh

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