Family members embrace at the scene of a garage fire Sunday afternoon on Lexington Court, where one man was killed and one was sent to the hospital with injuries.
It might be midweek before investigators know what started a Sunday afternoon garage fire that killed a man on Lexington Court and sent another to the hospital.
Fort Wayne Fire Department District Fire Chief Bob Amber said investigators still were sifting today through the rubble of the unattached garage where firefighters found the mans body. A second man, who had apparently been in the garage and told firefighters the other man was inside, was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Authorities did not release the identities of either man, pending notification of relatives. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause of death of the man who died.
Firefighters received their first alarm for the garage behind the home at 116 Lexington Court at 4:31 p.m, Amber said. The first crews were on hand three minutes later, and the fire was under control eight minutes after that.
Neighbors told firefighters the man who lived at the house frequently worked on cars in the garage. Two vehicles were in the garage when the fire started, but investigators did not say if one or both might have caused the blaze.
The fatality was the first fire death in the city this year. In the past year-and-a-half, there have been two fire deaths in Allen County. In December 2003, Cheryl Robeson, 45, of 2604 Oliver St., died of smoke inhalation and burns. And in September, a mother and her two children died in a mobile home blaze at Dupont Estates, 4613 Pleasant Valley Drive. Both fires were ruled accidental.
