By John Paul
LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. —
A Lancaster County firefighter kept battling a house fire Friday night even after he was injured when the front porch collapsed beneath him.
Capt. Ray Ingram, 33, with the Shiloh Zion Volunteer Fire Department fell through a concrete porch while fighting a fire at an abandoned house on Monroe Highway.
Ingram caught his fall on camera thanks to a camera he attaches to his helmet.
Another firefighter pulled Ingram out, but despite breaking his tail bone and a vertebrae, Ingram continued fighting the fire.
“I knew I was hurt, but I didn't know to what extent. We still had work to do,” Ingram said.
Ingram was then taken to Springs Memorial Hospital, where a CT scan revealed he suffered a fractured vertebra and a fractured tailbone.
“This is just a bump in the road. Hopefully in a couple weeks I’ll be back,” Ingram said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.