Man dies after Sacramento County apartment fire. A carbon monoxide alarm led to the discovery
A man died Tuesday after firefighters found him in the bedroom of his Fair Oaks apartment where a fire had occurred, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
About 5:20 a.m., firefighters initially responded to an activated carbon monoxide alarm in a second-floor apartment in the complex, located along Primrose Drive near Madison Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard in Fair Oaks.
Capt. Andrew Whaley, a Metro Fire spokesman, said firefighters arrived, spoke with a resident and detected there was carbon monoxide in the second-floor apartment.
Authorities then evacuated the apartments in the complex as they searched for the source of the carbon monoxide.
Whaley said the firefighters entered a first-floor apartment directly below, where they found smoke-stained windows and a high level of heat. He said firefighters searched the apartment and found the man unresponsive in a bedroom.
He was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, Whaley said. The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office will release his name after his family has been notified.
Firefighters determined a fire had occurred in the first-floor apartment, which activated the carbon monoxide alarm in the apartment above, Whaley said. The fire was already extinguished when the firefighters searched the first-floor apartment.
Whaley said the fire damage was limited to the first-floor apartment. Nobody else was found inside the apartment.
As of Tuesday evening, fire investigators had not yet determined the cause of the fire.
