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A man has died after being pulled from a home by fire crews responding to basement fire Tuesday morning, police say.

The Calgary Fire Department received multiple 911 calls just before 8:30 a.m. after residents in the community of Forest Heights saw smoke coming from a home on 44th Street near 26th Avenue S.E.

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Carol Henke, public information officer with the fire department, said firefighters who entered the home were met by thick, black smoke coming from the basement of the bungalow.

It was there they discovered the unconscious man.

He was rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition, said Stuart Brideaux, spokesman with Calgary EMS. Calgary police say he has since died.

Police said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that detectives do not believe the fire to be criminal and that they will not identify the victim. Investigators from the arson team and the fire department continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fire.