>> i was just watching television. >> in the back of the house wayne brasco, laid up with a leg injury is unaware of the fire up front. >> i heard a voice hollering. first i thought, oh, dear, someone's house in the neighborhood is on fire. you grow used to the noises of the street. >> from another part of the house, kenny staggers out behind bobby singh through the thick choking smoke, but where is wayne? >> kenny come with me right away, but wayne still inside. >> by the time i got eight or ten feet into the living room, which is in the front of the house, i saw flames coming up over the windows. the flames came up through the windows like they belonged in the house and i didn't. >> just three minutes after someone out in the street calls 911, fire trucks arrive. the house is totally consumed by flames.