By Associated Press - Wednesday, June 19, 2019

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Pennington County sheriff’s officials say one person has died in a house fire in Rapid City.

The victim is identified as 41-year-old Sean Rensch. Preliminary autopsy results show Rench died of smoke inhalation at his house Tuesday. Authorities are looking for a cause of the fire, but also say nothing appears to be suspicious.

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