Man Found Dead After Massive LI House Fire

MEDFORD, NY - Suffolk County Police are investigating a house fire that killed a man in Medford on Tuesday night.

Officers, firefighters from Medford and North Patchogue, as well as Medford EMS, Patchogue Ambulance and Farmingville Ambulance, responded to a home on Oregon Avenue at 10:30 p.m. after a 911 caller reported a fire at the location, police said.

After the fire was extinguished, the body of an adult male was located inside, police said.

The man, believed to be a resident of the home, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

His name is being withheld pending positive identification by the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

Two firefighters were transported to Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue for treatment of minor injuries.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by Arson Section detectives.

This is the second fatal house fire in Suffolk County this week. On Sunday, a man was killed in a fire at a home in nearby Farmingville. Police did not specify if the two incidents are related.

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