A house fire Christmas morning in East Oakland left a man dead after he helped three family members escape the flames, according to fire officials. At about 6:15 a.m., Oakland firefighters responded to the 3500 block of Oak Knoll Boulevard in the city's Oak Knoll Golf Links neighborhood on reports of a house fire,

The 37-year-old ensured that his family were saved from the early-morning fire, but fell unconscious after returning to the house.

An Oakland man died in a house fire Wednesday morning after safely getting his family out of the home, the fire department said.

The family of Steven Weatherford is mourning after he died in an Oakland Christmas morning house fire trying to save them, just a week before he was going to propose to his girlfriend on New Year's Eve.

A 37-year-old man was killed in a fire in Oakland on Christmas morning after getting his family out of a burning home, authorities said.

An Oakland man died after his house caught fire Christmas morning, according to officials. The fire sparked early Christmas morning in a home on the 3500 block of Oak Knoll Boulevard, according to Michael Hunt,