A man from Texas was forced to run inside his home in order to save his dog after a gas leak caused a house fire. He lost nearly half of his skin in the process.
In a post on Reddit, Zain Cano provided a detailed account of his injuries, stating that he had lost forty percent of his skin and had spent a month in the hospital. On the other hand, his dog was, in fact, saved.
“I had been working on my motorcycle and didn’t secure the fuel line, the gas leaked onto the carpet and caught fire, luckily I was the only one home at the time but I realized my dog was in the house and ran in to get him,” he stated.
According to a GoFundMe page that was established by Jenna Carter, Cano’s girlfriend, the fire occurred on May 22 at the San Antonio home that the couple shared while she was out running errands.
Carter stated that he raced back inside the house once he discovered that the couple’s dog, Clarence, was still inside. Although Cano first made it out of the house “relatively unscathed,” Carter added that he ran back inside.
“By this point, the house was engulfed. Fortunately, they both made it back out alive, but not without Zain withstanding third-degree burns to 40% of his body,” she added.
Carter went on to say that because the fire destroyed their home, the couple is looking for donations to pay for housing.
“He’s going to need multiple weeks of continuous medical care and help from me (he has to use a walker and cannot use his hands), and we desperately need a stable environment for him to heal in,” she stated.
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Carter added: “We are asking for help so we can afford to relocate for a few months. Anything that’s able to be contributed will help immensely and go straight into finding an affordable, handicap-friendly place to stay to make this transition for Zain as painless and worry-free as possible. We’re not sure what our next steps are, but we know this is where we have to start.”
According to Cano’s Reddit post, trying to recover has been “literally the worst experience of my life.”
“I feel horrible because my family is now homeless because of my mistake, we’re staying at a motel for the time being but it’s expensive and I can’t work and probably won’t be able to for at least another month or more,” he said.
As of Thursday, June 19, Cano and Carter’s GoFundMe had raised nearly $4K toward their $5K goal.
