Hurricane shutters hindered Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews from rescuing a person from a fire Monday morning from an Acreage home, Captain Albert Borroto said.

Crews responded shortly before 9 a.m. to a fire at the home on Banyan Boulevard, just east of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road south of Orange Boulevard, Monday morning.

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They found one person in the home and rushed that man to a hospital. A total of three people were temporarily left without a place to live.

The home sustained significant water and smoke damage, authorities said.

Borroto said hurricane shutters slowed crews’ rescue. They had to remove the shutters before they could focus on the fire.

"For these reasons we cannot stress enough the importance of removing shutters once a storm has passed," Borroto said in an email.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.