3:25 p.m. Nov. 26 UPDATE: A De Soto-area man was found dead in a bedroom during a mobile home fire early on Tuesday morning, Nov. 25, south of Hillsboro. This afternoon, Nov. 26, Grant Bissell, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, identified the man as 65-year-old Kent Allen Reinarman.
Bissell said the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office is still working to determine Reinarman's cause of death.
Hillsboro Fire Chief Brian Gaudet said the man appeared to have died in the fire, and as of Tuesday morning, no foul play is suspected. However, he said Hillsboro Fire, the Missouri State Fire Marshal and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office were investigating the fire.
Following an examination of the scene, the cause remains undetermined, he said.
Firefighters were called at about 2:25 a.m. to the 11700 block of Castle Ranch Road. The first truck arrived at 2:36 a.m., and firefighters found the mobile home well involved by fire, Gaudet said.
He said firefighters knocked the fire down and entered the mobile home, where they found the deceased man in a bed. He said firefighters were inside the mobile home while it was still on fire, and the fire was under control about 30 minutes after the first truck arrived.
Gaudet said the mobile home was destroyed.
It is believed no one else lived in the mobile home and no one else was injured, Gaudet said.
The De Soto Fire Department and De Soto Rural, Antonia and Hematite fire districts and Valle Ambulance districts, as well as Jefferson County 911 Dispatch, assisted with the fire.
ORIGINAL STORY: A man was found dead in a bedroom during a mobile home fire early this morning, Nov. 25, south of Hillsboro. No one else was injured in the fire, Hillsboro Fire Protection District Chief Brian Gaudet said.
Gaudet said the man appeared to have died in the fire, and as of this morning, no foul play is suspected. However, he said Hillsboro Fire, the Missouri State Fire Marshal and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office were investigating the fire.
Firefighters were called at about 2:25 a.m. to the 11700 block of Castle Ranch Road. The first truck arrived at 2:36 a.m., and firefighters found the mobile home well involved by fire, Gaudet said.
He said firefighters knocked the fire down and entered the mobile home, where they found the deceased man in a bed. He said firefighters were inside the mobile home while it was still on fire, and the fire was under control about 30 minutes after the first truck arrived.
Gaudet said it is unknown what caused the fire or where it started. He also said the mobile home was destroyed.
It is believed no one else lived in the mobile home, Gaudet said.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.