A 72-year-old man is dead after a fire at a mobile home park in Peabody, Massachusetts, early Saturday morning.
Peabody Fire 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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As they arrived, firefighters saw flames coming through the roof of the mobile home and extended to a neighboring home, according to fire chief Jay Dowling. A second person in that home, a woman in her 70s, was also taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
Local and state authorities are investigating the fire.
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More details were not immediately available.
