A man is dead after an early morning fire in rural Titonka Sunday.
The Kossuth County Law Enforcement Center says it received a 911 call around 4:25am from the 3400 block of 210th Avenue. A woman reported a fire and said she was woken up by the power going out in her house and noticed the glow of a fire at a workshop outbuilding.
The woman says her husband had been out in the workshop earlier because he couldn’t sleep and she did not know where he was.
Titonka Fire and EMS were sent to the scene and Kossuth County EMS and Bancroft Fire Department were requested to assist.
First responders arrived to find the outbuilding consumed by flames and 45 year old Brian Leroy Janssen dead inside the structure.
The Kossuth County Medical Examiner’s Office and State Fire Marshall’s Office were called in to help investigate the incident and determine the cause of Janssen’s death.
Kossuth County Emergency Management and the Kossuth County Sheriff’s Office also assisted at the scene.