UPDATE - 12/29/25, 3:15 p.m. ET: One person has died, while another remains hospitalized, after a fire broke out at a North Carolina house belonging to NASCAR star Denny Hamlin. The residence was home to Hamlin's parents, officials said on Monday, December 29. The identities of the two individuals have not been released. According to WSOC-TV, the hospitalized individual has "life-threatening" injuries. Fire crews responded to the blaze on Sunday, December 28, at around 6:20 p.m. and the blaze took nearly two hours to extinguish.