SAUGUS, MASS. (WHDH) - Officials say a man is lucky to be alive after firefighters found him passed out in a burning kitchen in Saugus Wednesday night.

Saugus fire received a call for smoke in a building on Falmouth Street after a neighbor heard the fire alarm going off around 11 p.m.

First responders found an adult male unconscious in a kitchen and rushed him to the hospital.

The neighbor is being credited with saving the man’s life.

The fire was contained in the kitchen and the cause remains under investigation.

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