LEROY, Minn. – A 90-year-old man was found dead inside a burning rural house before dawn. A woman was pulled out alive and taken 38 miles to a Rochester hospital. Fillmore County authorities declined to release the victims’ names until family were notified. The fire call was about 3:55 a.m. in the 13000 block of 111th Avenue about six miles northeast of LeRoy. Numerous fire crews responded, including volunteers from across the Iowa border in Chester. The cause of the fire was not determined immediately.
