Overview
- Kansas City crews handled two separate residential fires Tuesday, leaving one person dead and a woman in her 60s hospitalized.
- The house fire near 16th Street and Elmwood Avenue began as an EMS medical call just after 3:30 a.m., then a second-floor blaze broke out while police were on scene.
- Firefighters knocked down the flames using two hose lines and later found an occupant dead in a second-floor bedroom.
- KCPD’s Bomb and Arson unit is investigating the cause of the morning blaze, and the Red Cross is helping three people affected.
- In a separate incident just before 5:45 p.m. in the 3000 block of York Street, crews used three hose lines to control an apartment fire in 22 minutes and took a resident to a hospital for smoke inhalation, with her condition unknown.