The house fire in Aspen Grove Estates Thursday night proved to be fatal.

At 8:05 P.M., both the Steinbach RCMP and the Steinbach Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire at a residence located on Aspen Four Drive in the City of Steinbach.

"We were called out just after 8:00 o'clock in the evening to a structure fire at the Aspen trailer court,” says Steinbach Fire Chief Kel Toews. “We arrived and there was a visible fire coming out of the roof of the building. We proceeded to extinguish it."

were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Steinbach RCMP along with the Office of the Fire Commissioner and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner continue to investigate.