TULSA -- The Tulsa Fire Department is investigating after a fire broke out at a midtown home Saturday afternoon.
"Everything here can be replaced so we're good, I have to keep telling myself that." Michael Potts stood by as his home went up in flames.
"I was in our office in the front part of the house, and I saw smoke from the window, and I ran to the front and saw the flames, so then I called 911,” said Fred Boyd, a neighbor near the home.
Clouds of smoke traveled through the neighborhood as fire blazing out of the roof and windows. “Told the lady on the phone that my concern was there could be people in the house,” said Boyd.
"About halfway through we got a report that there was supposed to be a possible victim on the second story, on the south side of the building,” said Tulsa Fire Department Chief Jon Steiner.
Neighbors ran from house to house looking for the family's son they believed was asleep upstairs.
"Our son and our dogs got out so I can handle anything else,” said Potts
The Tulsa Fire Department says smoke detectors woke him up.
Fire officials say they are still investigating what caused the fire, but neighbors say they’ll rally around their own.
#BREAKING TFD responding to a house fire at South Irvington and East 47th Street South. @KJRH2HD pic.twitter.com/gRqOqpm6sP
— Ashley Holt (@AshleyHoltKJRH) December 31, 2016
More trucks and EMSA coming in. Neighbors say one person inside got out @KJRH2HD pic.twitter.com/A4fHXkDsyF
— Ashley Holt (@AshleyHoltKJRH) December 31, 2016
Neighbor tells me it looked like it started in the garage. Another says the family was at the mall, now headed back @KJRH2HD pic.twitter.com/VRbd9HMg1s
— Ashley Holt (@AshleyHoltKJRH) December 31, 2016
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