Man injured in garage fire
<p>Kootenai County Fire and Rescue firefighters pull sections of the eve looking for hot spots Wednesday after responding to a fire that originated in the garage of a Post Falls home. One man was transported to Kootenai Medical Center to be treated for burns.</p>
POST FALLS - A 20-year-old Post Falls man received up to third-degree burns to his hands and arms when a fire started in a garage he was working in Wednesday.
The fire started about 4 p.m. at 403 E. 23rd Ave., near the intersection of 23rd and Henry Street, in Post Falls.
Robert Dunn was working underneath an Isuzu pickup truck when a drill he was using sparked some gasoline that was in or near the truck.
Capt. Rick Clutter of Kootenai County Fire and Rescue said the damage was confined to the home's garage and the truck.
Clutter said more than a dozen firefighters responded to fight the blaze, which blackened the garage and its contents. It also burned part of the home's structure just above the garage, he said.
Quintan Gordon, 20, said he had just given Dunn the vehicle and he was working on it to prepare it for mud bogging.
Gordon said Dunn was taken by ambulance to Kootenai Medical Center. He said Dunn's mother was home at the time of the incident. She said his burns are third degree.