PINCONNING TWP, MI -- A 64-year-old man is dead following a house fire apparently sparked by a cigarette and an oxygen tank.

About 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, Michigan State Police troopers and paramedics responded to a medical call at 4636 N. Huron Road (M-13) in Bay County's Pinconning Township. As they neared the scene, they spotted smoke coming from the house, said Special 1st Lt. David Kaiser.

Firefighters arrived and battled the blaze. Once it was controlled, responders entered the structure and found resident Stanley Skrzysinski lying on the kitchen floor.

Skrzysinski was removed from his house and paramedics pronounced him deceased, Kaiser said.

An initial investigation showed an oxygen tank had caught fire due to a smoking accident, Kaiser said.

The investigator found a cigarette butt in the kitchen and a consistent fire path.

Kaiser said another structure Skrzysinski owned burned down under similar circumstances less than a year prior.