CHULA VISTA — A fire ripped through a single story home caused one elderly man, his wife and 3 police officers to be seriously injured. The fire started in the middle of the night at the home located off of Douglas st. Police arrived at the scene and found the wife outside, but her husband was still in the building and police went inside to help him escape. There where security gates on all windows and doors throughout the home and they where the non-removable kind. Firefighters had to cut the gate off to rescue the man. The house was declared a total loss and will have to be rebuilt. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.