Victim of fatal fire in Elgin identified
Posted December 29, 2020 12:00 am
The man killed during a Christmas Eve fire in Elgin has been identified as 56-year-old Douglas Hagen.
Hagen was pronounced dead at 7:15 a.m. Thursday at Sherman Hospital, according to the Kane County coroner's office. The coroner is waiting for results of carbon monoxide testing before declaring a preliminary cause of death, according to a news release.
The fire was reported at 6:31 a.m. in a townhouse in the 0-100 block of Creekside Circle. Firefighters found heavy fire in a second-floor unit. They located Hagen and took him to the hospital.