Apartment Resident Dies In Midtown Fire

April 19, 2007 Kansas - A house fire on a picturesque block in Wichita's Historic Midtown neighborhood Wednesday morning killed a 45-year-old man and left six other people homeless. The victim's name was being withheld pending an autopsy, authorities said, but neighbors said he was a mentally disabled man who had lived for several years in one of the five apartments in the 97-year-old Victorian home at 1715 Park Place, near 18th and Waco. Smoke detectors were going off for 11 minutes before anyone ...