By Ted Land
WSBT-TV
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — A Benton Harbor firefighter, badly burned when responding to a call last month, is now out of the hospital. Lt. Doug Bell’s spirits are remarkably well, though his body is just starting to heal.
“It was scary,” he said during an interview at his house, Friday, “there was probably three times that night I could’ve lost my life, and I didn’t.”
Bell was the only full-time Benton Harbor firefighter to respond to a burning home on Jennings Ave. just after midnight on March 14. He says he was trying to enter the house from a back door when he apparently tripped and fell into the garage. The door slammed behind him and he couldn’t get it back open.
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