{"id":92880,"date":"2016-01-25T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92880"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:46:34","slug":"one-person-dies-one-injured-housr-fire-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92880","title":{"rendered":"Names released, Valley City man dies Sunday AM fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE… VALLEY CITY, N.D.<\/p>\n

Water heater may be cause of fire<\/a> \u00a0 (AP) –\u00a0 85 year old Art Kirschenmann\u00a0<\/strong>has died from injuries suffered in a house fire in Valley City.<\/p>\n

Fire Chief Gary Retterath says it appears the blaze broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday in the home’s basement.<\/p>\n

Retterath\u00a0says \u00a0the body of\u00a0Kirschenmann has been sent to the State Forensic Examiner’s Office for an autopsy to determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n

Kirschenmann’s wife\u00a0 Arlene,<\/strong> was injured in the fire, and was reported\u00a0 in fair condition in a Fargo hospital, Monday.<\/p>\n

State fire marshal investigator, Ken Sisk said Monday the cause of the fire is still under investigation and didn\u2019t know when a determination will be made.<\/p>\n

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Previously….<\/p>\n

Valley City (CSi) \u00a0–\u00a0 The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office reports,\u00a0 a man was killed and a woman was injured in a 3-a.m.\u00a0Sunday\u00a0 fire in a two story single family home\u00a0in the 200 block of Sixth Street Northwest\u00a0in Valley City.<\/p>\n

Fire Chief Gary Retterath says\u00a0a\u00a0male occupant was found dead in the basement.\u00a0\u00a0A woman who lived in the house was able to get out and knock on neighbors\u2019 doors until someone answered and called to report the fire.<\/p>\n

Retterath says, \u00a0a\u00a0retired couple was in the home.\u00a0 \u00a0The husband died, and \u00a0his the wife was taken to Mercy Hospital and\u00a0reportedly is listed\u00a0in fair condition, on\u00a0Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Authorities haven\u2019t yet identified the victims.<\/p>\n

Retterath says the man’s body has been sent to the North Dakota State Forensic Examiner’s Office for an autopsy to determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0preliminary investigation,\u00a0indicates that\u00a0it appears the fire started in the basement and the man most likely went downstairs to check on it but didn\u2019t make it out. The fire spread quickly throughout the home,\u00a0spreading to the attic.<\/p>\n

Retterath and a deputy state fire marshal will\u00a0continue the \u00a0investigation in\u00a0the home on Monday to look into possible causes.<\/p>\n

\"firecallVC\"<\/a>No pets\u00a0occupied the home,\u00a0and the house was heavily damaged beyond repair.<\/p>\n

No other buildings were damaged.<\/p>\n

Retterath says about 20 firefighters and five units responded to the call. He says the firefighters had the fire under control within about 45 minutes of arriving on scene.<\/p>\n

Fire crews\u00a0 cleared the scene by the early Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Retterath says this was the first time he had a fatality at a house fire. He says after all the firefighters returned to the station from the scene, they had a debriefing with the Valley City Fire Department\u2019s chaplain.<\/p>\n

The Valley City Police Department was at the scene to help handle traffic near the home. The Red Cross provided\u00a0additional aid.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE… VALLEY CITY, N.D. Water heater may be cause of fire \u00a0 (AP) –\u00a0 85 year old Art Kirschenmann\u00a0has died from injuries suffered in a house fire in Valley City. Fire Chief Gary Retterath says it appears the blaze broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday in the home’s basement. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92880"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92883,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92880\/revisions\/92883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}