Firefighters found a body Friday night while working to extinguish a house fire near Town Creek Fork Park.
The Kansas City Fire Department responded to a fire in the 5700 block of Bales Avenue in the North Town Fork Creek neighborhood of Kansas City just before 11:30 p.m. Crews saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the front of the home.
Crews quickly brought the fire under control, Michael Hopkins, a KCFD spokesman, said in an email. During a search of the home, firefighters found the body of a man, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Firefighters called the Kansas City Police Department’s Bomb and Arson team, which took over the fire investigation. KCPD detectives are also investigating the man’s death, Hopkins said in an email.
Police and the KCFD have not yet released the identity of the victim.
An investigation is still ongoing, but the cause of the fire was still unknown Saturday morning.
