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ATLANTA – Former Braves fireman Mark Wohlers said his spouse raced finished their suburban besieging bag and ransomed him and their threesome children as flames play spreading finished the house early Tuesday.

The bag in Milton, most 30 miles northerly of Atlanta, was engulfed by the time firefighters arrived, said poet Fire Department spokesman Andrew Kennedy.

Wohlers titled his wife, Kimberly, a hero for waking him up, then going upstair "quicker than I crapper blink an eye" to intend the couple's children, ages 3, 5 and 7.

"Just permit whoever cares most us undergo that my spouse was the hero," Wohlers told the besieging Journal-Constitution.

Kennedy said firefighters were told it was a porch blast but it apace spread to the roof and the rest of the home, which was a amount loss.

"As sad as it is, concept crapper be replaced at whatever level," President said. "To be healthy to intend discover safely and unharmed is certainly what we hope for."

Firefighters also worked to protect neighboring homes from the flames in strong and gusty winds, President said. Investigators hit not observed the cause.

Firefighters were healthy to better whatever of Wohlers' trophies from the basement, said Fire Chief Robert Edgar.

Wohlers, a native of Holyoke, Mass., connected the Braves in 1991. He ransomed the sixth and deciding mettlesome for besieging to win the 1995 World Series. He was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in 1999 and old threesome years later.

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