INDIANAPOLIS — A 74-year-old man rescued from a Dec. 3 apartment fire has died, officials said Monday.
An Indianapolis Fire Department spokesperson said the man, pulled from a fire at 13 N. Traub Ave., died from his injuries on Saturday.
It's the eighth Indianapolis fire fatality in 2020.
Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the fire. IMPD's homicide unit has joined the case — a standard procedure in fatal fires.
Sixteen people were displaced by the fire, which started in a downstairs apartment where squatters were reportedly living. There were 10 people inside the apartment who were identified as possible squatters.
There were no working smoke alarms in the building, according to IFD.
Firefighters returned to the same complex for a fire in another part of the building early Monday morning. No one was hurt in that fire, and investigators are probing the cause.
