The man who died in an overnight fire in Middletown has been identified as a former New York City firefighter. <\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s name has not been released pending notification of family members.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out at a residence on Starhaven Ave. early Saturday morning, claiming one life and injuring several first responders, according to the Middletown Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Two police officers were taken to Garnet Health Medical Center for smoke inhalation and three firefighters were evaluated and treated at the scene for minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the firefighters discovered the victim inside the home while battling the flames.<\/p>\n
Officials say the preliminary cause of the fire appears to be an overloaded power strip, although the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who died in an overnight fire in Middletown has been identified as a former New York…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19717,63056,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-706976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fatal-fire","tag-middletown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116353322560138057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}