Charlotte Fire: 1 dead after fire at home with smoke detector with no batteries

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Fire officials are urging everyone to make sure you have a working smoke detector, following a deadly house fire in south Charlotte.

Crews responded to a house on Raintree Lane just before two Friday morning. Charlotte Fire said they could see flames coming from the home when they got there. Two people inside that home were taken to the hospital where one of them died. Officials said the only smoke detector in the house did not have batteries.

The fire has been ruled accidental.