UPDATE, 6/12/20: The victim has been identified as Lonnie ray Niemi, 59. He was positively identified through X-rays.
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BESSEMER, MI-- One person has died in a Bessemer house fire.
Michigan State Police from the Wakefield Post were dispatched Tuesday around 9 p.m. to 213 Sellar Street and found the house fully engulfed. Troopers tried to enter the home but were held back by intense flames and smoke.
The Bessemer City and Bessemer Township Fire Departments responded and extinguished the fire. Troopers then discovered one person died in the house.
The MSP Fire Marshal and an MSP Accelerant Detection K-9 have been called in to investigate the cause of the blaze.
The name of the victim is not being released until the next of kin can be notified.
The Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.
