BATON ROUGE - One person is dead after a house caught fire off Napoleon Street behind Greater Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church Thursday morning.

The Baton Rouge Fire Department was on the scene just after 4 a.m., and the fire was under control by 5 a.m.. 

While crews were searching the home for other occupants, a neighbor across the street said a child had escaped the home and was staying at another home nearby. The child was not injured. 

The cause of the fire is undetermined.