Investigators were still on the scene of a Naperville home Wednesday evening where two people died and three were injured in an early-morning fire, according to the Naperville Fire Department.
The DuPage County Coroner's Office removed the two bodies around noon Wednesday from the two-story home at 1212 Field Court. Firefighters responded to the home around 6:50 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports of a fire.
A 21-year-old man as well as an 84-year-old man and his 56-year-old daughter remain hospitalized. Two are at Edward Hospital in Naperville and a third resident is at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
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Neighboring residents were evacuated from their home due to the risk of a ruptured natural gas line, but they were not injured.
Within 10 minutes of arriving to the scene, "fire personnel were removed from the building due to concern of a possible structural collapse," according to the fire department.
Firefighters discovered two bodies once they were able to re-enter the home.
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A cause for the fire has not yet been determined, but estimated damage to the home is more than $200,000, according to the fire department.
The home will be demolished as parts of the upper level of the home collapsed into the lower level, according to the fire department.
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