Four school buses filled with middle and high school students were involved in a crash on Indiana 13, north of North Webster on Wednesday afternoon.A portable heater used to thaw pipes in the basement of northeast Indiana lake home appears to be the source of a fatal fire, according to a preliminary report issued Thursday.
The fire at 2147 Chapman Lake Drive on Wednesday morning appears to have started in the basement, the Kosciusko County Fire Investigation Team said in a statement.
The identity of the body found inside has not been released by officials.
Sheriff’s deputies and five fire departments were sent to the blaze reported about 10:30 a.m.
When they arrived, the house was engulfed in flames, and the fire’s intensity kept firefighters from entering the home, said Sgt. Chad Hill, a spokesman for the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, for an earlier story.
Two renters living in part of the house had safely escaped the fire and gone to a neighbor’s home to call 911.
The flames spread to a neighboring house to the north at 2141 Chapman Lake Drive.
