Man, 46, Killed In Minneapolis House Fire

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) Minneapolis firefighters are trying to figure out what caused a fire that killed a 46-year-old man.

Looking at the outside of the home, it was hard to even see any damage. But a man died inside the home on Logan Avenue North in Minneapolis. It was the second fatal fire of 2015 in Minnesota. A woman died Thursday after a fire in Vadnais Heights.

Scott Krider was watching and lives across the street from the latest victim. He described the scene Saturday evening.

Seen paramedics go in the house so we knew somebody was still in the house but they came out empty-handed so we knew somebody was left inside, Krider said.

He said that somebody was his buddy, Mike Klingelhoets, a man who lived a life of danger working for the past 17 years on a boat.

Hed usually spend three or four months home enjoying himself and then following year hed go back up to Alaska and fish again, Krider said.

A single man, Kilingelhoets father said he was going to change professions in the spring, working for the merchant marines.

He was getting tired of it and thinking of retiring. He said it was hard work, Krider said.

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Man, 46, Killed In Minneapolis House Fire