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Emergency crews find man with lacerated throat in burning home

Police said the man was found when emergency crews reported to a house in the 200 block of Edmund Avenue just after 5 a.m.
Credit: KARE 11

ST PAUL, Minn. — A man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries on Saturday morning after a house fire in St. Paul. 

Just after 5 a.m., St. Paul fire crews responded to a report of a fire at 265 Edmund Avenue in the South Frogtown neighborhood. 

When firefighters arrived, they said they found "active fire and smoke conditions." 

Firefighters found a victim inside the house and crews helped the person out of the house through a window. 

According to St. Paul police, the victim was a man in his 30s with a laceration to his throat. Police said he was taken to Regions Hospital with life-threatening injuries. 

Police said no one else was found in the home. 

The fire was put down quickly, firefighters said, and investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire and how the man was injured. 

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