Authorities: 2 men dead after early-morning house fire in Jackson; cause under investigation

2/27/2014

Investigators work at the home where a fatal fire occurred at 404 S. Blackstone St. in Jackson, Mich., in the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Authorities say two men died in the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (AP Photo/Jackson Citizen Patriot, J. Scott Park)

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JACKSON, Mich.— Two men have been pronounced dead after a fire swept through their Jackson apartment house.

The 58- and 59-year-olds were pulled from the burning home early Thursday morning.

Lisa Wing tells the Jackson Citizen Patriot that she heard a pop just before 3 a.m. and then her daughter yelled the house next door was burning. Wing says her daughter’s fiance pounded on a door to the home and got two people out safely.

Wing says she “saw another lady jump” from a second-floor window.

Assistant Fire Chief Steve Childs says the woman who jumped was taken to a hospital.

WLNS-TV reports the house is separated into three apartments. Names of the dead weren’t immediately released.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.