An aged man was killed and his grownup son critically injured when a fireplace engulfed the second ground of their dwelling on Lengthy Island, authorities stated Monday.
Barry Garfman, 82, was pronounced useless on the scene of the blaze in Huntington Station, the Suffolk County Police Division stated in an alert.
His son, 42-year-old Dustin Garfman, was transported to Stony Brook College Hospital with severe accidents, cops stated. Barry and Dustin lived within the residence collectively.
A 911 caller reported flames coming from the house round 11:15 p.m. Sunday, Suffolk police stated. 5 totally different native fireplace departments responded to extinguish the blaze, about 30 miles east of Central Park.
The flames had been most intense in a second-floor room on the left aspect of the two-story home, in line with video shared on Fb by the Huntington Manor Hearth Division. The primary ground of the house remained comparatively calm within the video.
Investigators had been nonetheless probing the reason for the fireplace on Monday, however Suffolk police stated it “does not appear to be criminal in nature at this time.”
The fireplace adopted an analogous incident in Suffolk County two weeks earlier, when a mom and son had been killed in a home fireplace in Smithfield on Nov. 30.
Christine Lehmann, 52, and her 25-year-old son, Nicholas, had been killed in that blaze, which was extra intense and required two hours of labor from 80 firefighters throughout eight departments earlier than it was extinguished.
