Rapid City Officials Identify Man Who Died in House Fire

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The victim of a weekend house fire in Rapid City has been identified.

The Rapid City Fire Department says the victim was 34-year-old Reggie WhiteBull, a quadriplegic who lived in the back bedroom of the mobile home that caught on fire.

Officials have said WhiteBull died from smoke inhalation and burns. Six people made it out of the home and were treated and released from a local hospital.

The department received a report of the blaze around 5 a.m. Saturday. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Joshua Vanderploeg, who lives on the trailer park where the fire occurred, tells the Rapid City Journal that he and two other people tried to break the home's windows to reach WhiteBull, but couldn't go inside because of the smoke and flames.

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