Man hurt, dogs die in Gippsland fire
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A Gippsland man escaped serious injury, but lost his two pet dogs, in a house fire at Kalimna near Lakes Entrance early this morning.
Leigh Zapelli aged 19, woke at about 2:30am (AEST) to find the house full of smoke and flames coming from the kitchen.
"Well I couldn't see and I couldn't breathe," he said.
"I smashed a window and got my head out so I could breathe.
"When the floods were on last year my room was the only room that flooded, so I moved in here and then I just didn't move back."
He slashed his hand as he was escaping through a bathroom window.
Mr Zapelli says the house, one of two on his parents' Gippsland property, was totally destroyed.
