VIDEO: Authorities are investigating a deadly car fire in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood on Monday morning.
Officials say one person is dead, although the medical examiner has yet to identify the body.
The incident happened just before 6 a.m. Monday on South Trenton Street in the South Park area. Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Kaila Lafferty says a neighbor called in the fire.
“The neighbor that called it in suspected that there might have been someone in the vehicle,” said Lafferty.
When firefighters arrived, they found a red Ford Explorer fully engulfed in flames. “They did unfortunately find someone deceased,” Lafferty noted.