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Man, 19, Dead After Hassan House Fire

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 19-year-old man died and a woman was seriously injured Saturday afternoon after a house in Hassan, Minn., caught fire.

Police responded to a single-family house on the 2400 block of 141st Avenue North after a neighbor reported seeing a fire at around 6:30 p.m.

First responders to the fire found a man dead in his bedroom and his mother, who is in her 40s, seriously injured, police said.

The woman was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center.

Police said the fire gutted the house, but they do not know what caused it. Severe weather may have played a role.

The State Fire Marshall's Office will continue to investigate the fire.

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