A victim was taken to a local hospital with severe burns after a fire broke out early Thursday morning in Mobile, police said.

Mobile officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Dauphin Street around 2:32 a.m. Thursday in response to a medical emergency, said Cpl. Katrina Frazier.

Mobile Fire and Rescue Service personnel told the officers who arrived on the scene that a fire broke out across the street.

The officers then learned the victim, only identified as being 42 years old, was sleeping in the area where the fire erupted.

The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital with severe burns, said Frazier.

The investigation into the blaze was ongoing.