Local firefighters rescued a man from his burning home amid “severe fire conditions” Monday night, according to officials.

The 67-year-old man rescued from his Middleboro house was then transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, which included burns and smoke inhalation.

Firefighters responded to 6 Locust St., a two-story home in South Middleboro, for a report of a house fire at around 9:15 p.m. Monday.

Upon arrival, firefighters attacked the blaze from the outside. They then learned from neighbors that the home’s occupant was likely still inside the home.

Firefighters “conducted an aggressive search” and found the man near a side entrance, officials said. He was then transported by a Coastal Medical Transportation ambulance to Rhode Island Hospital.

The bulk of the fire was extinguished at about 12:30 a.m., but crews remained on the scene throughout the morning to extinguish hot spots.

One firefighter suffered a minor ear laceration and was treated at the scene.

“I would like to commend our Middleborough Fire crews that did an incredible job on the scene last night,” Middleboro Fire Chief Owen Thompson said in a statement. “We were able to simultaneously initiate a fire attack and complete search and rescue operations.

“Over the last couple of years, the Town, the Firefighters’ Union, and the Fire Department have worked collaboratively to increase our staffing, allowing us to do that,” the chief added. “I want to commend Firefighters Thomas Melucci and Robert Delaney, who demonstrated bravery and dedication as they located and removed the victim in the face of severe fire conditions.”

Middleboro Fire, with assistance from the Massachusetts State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit attached to the State Fire Marshal’s Office, is currently investigating the cause of the fire.

The cause does not appear to be intentional, but the investigation remains ongoing.

Through the preliminary investigation, investigators learned from video evidence that the fire started about 12 to 14 minutes before the Fire Department received the initial 911 call.

Crews from the Bridgewater, Carver, Lakeville, and Wareham fire departments provided on-scene mutual aid. Carver firefighters provided station coverage.

BOSTON – A family from the greater Boston area says they were the victims of a racist tirade by a stranger on a United Airlines bus last week. Pervez Taufiq captured the incident on his cell phone as he says a woman started yelling at his four-year-old son.

United Airlines passenger on racist rant

“She’s yelling at him, the four-year-old, and says ‘shut up, just shut up,’” Taufiq said. “And I snapped, and I said, ‘don’t you ever speak to my son that way. You have no right.’”

Taufiq and his wife Nicole are both wedding photographers who travel the globe. He says they were flying to California on a United Airlines flight with their three kids when they first noticed the woman’s bizarre behavior. She was seated next to his 11-year-old son in business class.

“She asked if I was Indian, and I said yes, I was Indian,” Taufiq says his son told him.

After landing, passengers on the flight were driven to the airport on a United bus. That is where Taufiq says the woman started using racial epithets about his family. The video posted to Taufiq’s social media shows the two going back and forth.

“You’re from India. You have no respect,” she is heard saying in the cell phone video. “I’m American,” she says.

“So are we,” Taufiq responds in the video.

“No, you’re not American,” she says back to him.

The video also shows the woman referring to Taufiq and his family as “Tandoori.”

“That’s brutal to have someone tell you that because you don’t look like them, you’re not American,” Taufiq told WBZ-TV.

Taufiq says United Airlines staff asked his family if they would like to leave the bus, and he replied that he wanted the woman removed. The video shows the woman walking off of the bus to talk to staff members, and Taufiq says she did not return.

Hopes people will speak up in future

Throughout the incident, Taufiq told WBZ-TV that one man spoke up for his family. He hopes this ordeal will help others speak up if this happens to anyone else.

“This is not acceptable and if you see it, stand up, say something, be with the person that’s going through this,” he said.

Nicole Taufiq says their 11-year-old son is processing what happened. The couple and their children have traveled to 34 countries for their work. They say they have never had to explain racism to their kids before.

“He’s dealing with it in different ways. Like, everyday is a new question, a new angle. I think he’s still trying to process this whole experience in his own way, and I think that’s just hard to watch,” Nicole said.

The couple hopes to identify the woman in the video and press charges.

“I certainly would love it if someone found her, and we could press charges against her and then realistically for her to get the very loud message that she’s one of very few and there are a lot more people like us,” Taufiq said.

WBZ-TV reached out to United Airlines for a comment and was told the company did not have any additional information to share.