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Northern Wisconsin man killed in house fire
The Vilas County Sheriff’s Department says a 45-year-old man has died from injuries suffered in a fire at his northern Wisconsin home.
Capt. John Butler said Wednesday that firefighters were called to the home in Boulder Junction about 7:00 pm Tuesday with a father reporting him son, Richard Haag, was in the basement trying to put out a fire and hadn’t come out.
Butler says rescuers found Haag and transported him to a Woodruff hospital. The victim was later flown to a trauma center in St. Paul, Minnesota where he died.
Butler says the
cause of the fire, which was contained to the home’s basement, remains under
investigation.
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