An early morning house fire in downtown Madison sent three people to the hospital and resulted in the death of a young man. The Dane county coroner says 23 year old Peter Talen died in the fire. He was from Plymouth, Wisconsin. Three others escaped the home and were taken to the hospital Sunday, but are said to have non life-threatening injuries.
Firefighters were called to 123 North Bedford around 5:30 Sunday morning by a passerby who called to report flames on the porch of the two-story house. Dan Miller lives next door to where the fire happened. He was sleeping when the fire broke out. “My girlfriend woke me up about 5:30 in the morning. She had heard some yelling in the street somebody had been yelling, “Get out there’s a fire! A house is on fire!”,” explained Miller.