Injured woman ‘critical but stable’ after being pulled from house fire at 84th & Slide Road

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A woman who was taken from a burning home is in critical but stable condition, according to the Lubbock Fire Department, after a fire at 84th Street and Slide Road displaced a total of 10 people.

Lubbock Fire Rescue responded to a two-alarm fire in South Lubbock, at around 8 p.m., Wednesday evening.

When firefighters arrived in the 5200 block of 84th Street, flames were coming out of the roof. The rescue team went in to search for people and found an adult female inside.

The fire was in one unit of the quadruplex, but two other units suffered severe smoke damage and the fourth has light smoke damage. A cat died in the fourth unit.

Two adults and two children were displaced from one of the adjoining units. In the other adjoining unit, three adults and one child were displaced. The Red Cross responded to assist that family. The Fire Marshal’s investigation is ongoing.