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Firefighters found a deceased man in the house but were able to remove the man’s sister from a bedroom and transport her to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. 

One man is dead and his sister hospitalized after a fire July 9 in a manufactured home in east Springfield, officials from Eugene Springfield Fire said.

The two-alarm fire at Santiago Estates, 5335 Main St., was reported at 10:57 a.m. Wednesday.

Robert Grand, Eugene Springfield Fire battalion chief, said an engine was on the scene within minutes, and found a “fully involved manufactured home fire.” Neighbors told firefighters that people might be inside the home.

Grand said firefighters used a hose line to quickly knock down the exterior fire at a spot where they could access the house and try to locate anyone inside. They entered the house through a back bedroom window and found the woman, believed to be in her 30s, in the bedroom. She was transported to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. Grand said that she had a pulse as crews transported her to the hospital, but updated information about her condition was not immediately available.

Fire crews then went farther into the house and found the dead man believed to be in his 20s, Grand said.

He said firefighters confirmed that no other victims were in the house and proceeded to put out the fire. The names of the two victims were not immediately available.

“We don’t know the reason it started,” Grand said.

The fire marshal’s office and the Springfield Police Department are investigating the fire. Police investigate anytime someone dies in a structure fire, he said.

While the department responds to structure fires with some regularity — the department had 19 fires last month — Grand said, “It’s pretty rare we get a fatal fire.”

Santiago Estates is a manufactured home community for residents 55 and older.