SKY 5 brought live coverage Monday afternoon as John Trimberger's home was consumed by flames.A volunteer firefighter trying to save his home was shot in the process.Frank Megow, a volunteer firefighter and an Army and Marine Corps veteran, was on the front line of the fire.“Rate of spread went to a full run, started hitting aerial fuels, we got overran by the fire, trucks got engulfed,” he told KOCO 5’s Kim Passoth.Minutes before the fire overtook the home, Megow and his men from the Washington Volunteer Fire Department tried to save it, unaware of the hidden danger inside.“Landowner that owns the house, he has five to six hand guns,” said a man who lived in Trimberger’s home.The fire's heat started exploding the ammunition. “As we went to make entry in the structure that’s when the ammunition started cooking off,” said Megow. “I took two to the chest and one to the head,” he added.Megow was hit by shrapnel. “Bullets, when they explode, it's energy going both directions so that's what pretty much saved me but I took a couple of hits,” Megow said.Despite his injures, the military man refused to give up the fight. His reason: “People, people, my partner, fireman can't leave them,” he said.He was eventually taken away in this ambulance. He says of the many battles he's fought, this one he's lucky to have survived.