A 72-year-old man was killed in a fire in Peabody, Mass.
A 72-year-old man is dead after a fire at a mobile home park in Peabody, Massachusetts, early Saturday morning.
Peabody Fire said they responded to calls about the fire on Newbury Street at around 5:30 a.m. Firefighters discovered a man in a bedroom, according to fire officials. He was pronounced dead on scene, the Essex District Attorney's Office confirmed Saturday morning.
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He has not been publicly identified.
As they arrived, firefighters saw flames coming through the roof of the mobile home had extended to a neighboring home, according to fire chief Jay Dowling. A woman in her 70s escaped that home and was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
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Local and state authorities are investigating the fire.
More details were not immediately available.
