Overview
- Firefighters found one person dead after a 3 a.m. blaze on Southmont Street in the South Park area, first spotted by a Houston Police sergeant on patrol.
- Arson and homicide investigators responded to the South Park scene as the cause of that fire remains undetermined.
- Houston Fire Department crews were dispatched around 8 a.m. to the 2300 block of Willow Lake Drive and encountered heavy smoke at a single-story home.
- An elderly man who reportedly lived alone was located inside the Willow Lake house and later pronounced deceased despite rescue efforts.
- HFD said it took about 20 minutes to bring the Willow Lake fire under control and urged residents to check smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and maintain an emergency plan.