HIGH POINT, N.C. — High Point fire officials said they found a body inside a house fire early Friday morning.
It happened shortly before 3 a.m. Friday at a home on West Green Drive. Officials said the house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. Fire crews got the flames out in less than 15 minutes.
Officials said they found one person dead inside the home. Four other people got out of the home safely. One other person lives there but wasn't home at the time.
Red Cross is working to re-home the victims.
Fire crews remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the fire, citing the ongoing investigation. They could not confirm where the fire started or if the person who was found dead, died as a result of the fire.
News 2 spoke with a neighbor who said this is a tight-knit community and it's devastating to hear that this tragedy occurred.
"Most of the time everybody around here knows everybody," said Denise Anderson. "I don't know who lived there but it is and we all look out for each other and help each other and stuff and it's so close to where we live. That's why its so hard because I was thinking it could have been us. I'm just heartbroken because somebody died."
The SBI is helping in the investigation, which is standard procedure when a house fire is deadly.