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House fire claims Escanaba life

ESCANABA, MI--   An Escanaba man has died in a house fire. 

WLUC-TV reports Public Safety officers were called to 301 North 12th Street Tuesday around 10:20 p.m. and encountered fire on the second floor. They were told a man was trapped upstairs. After officers extinguished the fire they found a deceased man in his late 30s.

The man’s name has not been released. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Assisting at the scene were the Ford River Township Fire Department, the Delta County Sheriff’s Office, and the Michigan State Police.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.