CRESTVIEW - Police officers evacuated an elderly woman from her home after the porch caught fire Wednesday morning.
After arriving at the fire on Panama Drive shortly after 9 a.m., Crestview Police Detective David Henry began extinguishing flames with a water hose while Officers John Cook and Justin Reed entered the home and found the resident in a back bedroom. They helped her out with help from Sgt. Don Howe, according to police
Henry extinguished the flames.
Crestview firefighters and Okaloosa County EMS crews arrived and treated the resident and the officers.
Henry was treated and released from North Okaloosa Medical Center