WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — One person has died in a garage fire in Stevens Point, officials have confirmed.
Rescue crews were called at about 7 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 600 block of Sixth Avenue in Stevens Point, where they discovered the garage engulfed in flames. Officials say they were told a person might be trapped inside.
The blaze is the second fatal fire in a handful of days in Wisconsin. A fire earlier this week in Pickerel claimed the life of six people, including four children.
The name of the victim in the Stevens Point fire has not been released. The cause of the blaze has not yet been determined.