SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

A house exploded and caught fire Thursday morning in California's capital city, leaving one person dead, officials said.

Fire crews were dispatched at 6:15 a.m. to a property in Sacramento's South Oak Park neighborhood after receiving multiple 911 calls about a house explosion.

Upon arrival, firefighters saw a well-involved fire and subsequent explosions, the Sacramento Fire Department said. A deceased person was found toward the front of the house. The blast impacted at least two to three other nearby structures.

"The thing that makes this more of a complex investigation is not only the fatality that we have associated with it, but the fact that there was an apparent explosion on this property. Our fire investigators investigate fires. They don't investigate explo

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