Firefighters putting out a blaze in a garage in St. Paul found a person dead inside Wednesday night.

The cause of the fire in the North End is under investigation; it did not appear suspicious, said Deputy Fire Chief Jamie Smith.

Firefighters responded to a report of a detached garage fire in the 1400 block of Mayre Street off Arlington Avenue just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. They needed multiple fire hoses to extinguish the fire, according to Smith.

The person who died appeared to be a man. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office will officially identify him and determine his cause of death.

Wednesday’s fatality comes after two men died in a garage in St. Paul on Feb. 9 on Sims Avenue near White Bear Avenue. The cause of that fire was a space heater that was accidentally knocked over, according to the fire department. One of the men was the homeowner’s son and lived in the garage on and off.

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