BATON ROUGE — Firefighters responded to a duplex fire in a subdivision off Coursey Boulevard near Cedarcrest Avenue on Tuesday.

According to St. George Fire officials, crews responded to the fire along Weiner Creek Drive around 9:20 a.m. The blaze produced a large plume of black smoke, with the fire appearing to severely damage a garage attached to the building.

Within 30 minutes, the fire was under control.

One person was treated by EMS after being rescued from the home.

Neighbor Raymond Emilien, who has lived in the area for 10 years, said he had never seen anything like it on his street. He watched as firefighters carried the dog out on a stretcher.

"It was really scary. It was real scary," Emilian said.

"I knew the dog was in there because she walks her dog in the evening after she got off from work. When the dog came out, they had to just about tow him out there because all that smoke and body was in there," he said.

He told WBRZ he first heard a loud boom from inside his home and thought it was a transformer.

Firefighters from Baton Rouge and St. George who responded to the scene rescued a dog while putting out the fire, officials said. The dog was taken to an emergency vet, officials added.

The St. George Fire Department is still working to find the cause of the fire.