(Barrie, Canada) - One person died and a 51-year-old man remains critically injured after a house fire Sunday evening in north Barrie, police say.

The Canadian Press and Barrie 360 report that the man was injured after returning inside to help someone believed to be in the basement. Three others escaped without injury.

Firefighters found a person dead inside. Their identity has not been released. The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating the cause.

Barrie 360 locates the home on Livia Herman Way, near St. Vincent Street and Livingstone Street East. Its account and the CP report differ slightly on the call time; both place the fire early Sunday evening, October 25.

Sources: The Canadian Press, via CHCH, October 26; Barrie 360, October 26.

Editorial illustration of fire-investigation equipment; not a photograph of the Barrie scene.