LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One person was found dead after two houses went up in flames in the Crescent Hill neighborhood Wednesday morning, according to Louisville Fire.
Firefighters responded to reports of a house fire near Frankfort Avenue and Hite Avenue around 6:30 a.m. Crews found two homes on fire with heavy flames and smoke behind the firehouse on Franck Avenue.
Louisville Division of Fire Capt. Donovan Sims said crews fought the flames while conducting a primary search of both homes, but no one was found.
During a secondary search, crews found a person dead in the back of the main house that was on fire.
Sims said the cold weather made the fire hard to find.
"One issue that can happen when we do have that cold weather -- that smoke kind of sits down low versus moving straight up," Sims said. "And that just made it ... the visibility at first was kind of hard to locate."
The victim has not been identified, and the cause of death hasn't yet been determined.
The Louisville Division of Fire's arson unit is investigating.
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