LAKE VIEW, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say a 47-year-old Lake View man who initially escaped a house fire with his wife later died after running back into the home.
The Sac County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that first responders were called to the house Tuesday afternoon for a fire. Firefighters found the body of Jerry Wayne Brauckman just outside the home.
Investigators say Brauckman and his wife were upstairs when they smelled smoke and fled, but that Brauckman re-entered the home to find the source of the fire. He apparently became disoriented in the smoke and eventually broke out a window on an enclosed porch to escape, but died once outside.
An autopsy has been ordered. Investigators say the fire started around a space heater.
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