BATON ROUGE - One person is dead after an early Thursday morning house fire in a neighborhood off College Drive.

The fire happened in the area of the intersection of Congress Boulevard and Bunker Hill Drive around 6:15 a.m. It took firefighters nearly an hour to put out the fire.

One person, later identified by the parish coroner's office as 75-year-old Charles Davis Jr., died in the fire. 

The cause of the fire is under investigation, but firefighters said the fire is thought to have started in the back of the house in a carport. The roof collapsed as firefighters began working to put out the fire, which then extended into the attic. This caused significant damage to the rest of the house.

The home was a complete loss, fire officials said.

The fire also totaled a 2007 Dodge Ram valued at $9,000.