MINNEAPOLIS — A man is dead after his apartment caught fire early Thursday in Minneapolis.
Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker says crews were dispatched to an apartment building at 1501 Portland Ave. around 2:15 a.m. on reports of an alarm sounding and smoke on the first floor.
Responding crews encountered light smoke, followed the source and eventually forced their way into a unit where it seemed to be coming from. Inside they found a male resident laying unconscious in the entryway suffering from burn injuries.
The victim was pulled from the apartment and fire crews immediately began CPR on him until paramedics arrived and took over lifesaving measures. Unfortunately they were unable to revive him, and the man was declared dead on the scene.
Rucker says firefighters in the apartment unit traced the apparent source of smoke to a bed that somehow started on fire but had burned itself out. The fire did not extend outside the one apartment.
At this point, investigators have not listed an official cause for the fatal fire.
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