A man has died following a house fire in the Killygowan area of Co Cavan.<\/p>\n
The rural two storey residence is located about 6km west of Cavan Town.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say they were called to the scene yesterday evening at around 7.35pm.<\/p>\n
Units of Cavan County Fire Service from Cavan town and Killeshandra responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
Firefighters encountered what they described as a well-developed fire, with the roof structure already having collapsed and the first floor completely enveloped.<\/p>\n
After the fire was brought under control, a detailed search under challenging conditions ensued with the remains of one deceased adult casualty discovered upstairs in the home.<\/p>\n
The scene of the fire was preserved for a technical examination this morning.<\/p>\n
The office of the local Coroner has been notified. Gardai say enquiries are ongoing but it\u2019s understood that no foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a spokesperson for Cavan County Fire Service said they, \u201cconvey our deepest sympathies to the loved ones of the deceased.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a house fire in the Killygowan area of Co Cavan. The rural two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-65999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}