House fire injures three in Campbell

CAMPBELL — A 5-year-old Second Street boy was badly burned after he was pulled out of his burning bedroom by his father.

The boy, Richard Wilson, was in serious condition Sunday night in Akron Children’s Hospital, where he was taken by helicopter after being rescued from a porch roof about 10 a.m.

Firefighters said his father, Ken Wilson, also was burned and taken to the same hospital. A nursing supervisor said no one by that name was admitted.

The boy’s mother, Brenda Kistner-Wilson, was listed in fair condition.

The family was asleep in the house at 25 Second St. when a 19-month-oldok boy woke up in a second-floor bedroom and told his 17-year-old sister, “It’s hot. It’s hot.”

The girl grabbed the baby and ran downstairs to wake up the rest of the family. The father ran upstairs to the bedroom where the 5-year old was sleeping.

He was unable to take his son out through the door, so they went through a window and onto a porch roof. A neighbor put a ladder up. John Gulu, a Campbell police officer who just arrived, went up and got the boy. The father followed down the ladder.

Meanwhile, the mother crawled out another window onto a porch roof at the back of the house. She jumped about 12 feet to the ground. Firefighters said they had conflicting reports of how the baby got out of the house.

Two other people had been sleeping in the basement, and they escaped unharmed.

Firefighters said the fire appears to have started in the boy’s bedroom and spread to the hallway.

Officials from the state fire marshal’s office were to be at the scene todaymon to look for a cause. The damage to the house was listed at $25,000.