{"id":284054,"date":"2026-04-24T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284054\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:23:10","slug":"87-year-old-man-dies-from-smoke-inhalation-after-house-fire-in-oakland-county-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284054\/","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old man dies from smoke inhalation after house fire in Oakland County, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 87-year-old man is dead, and his wife was injured, in the aftermath of a house fire Wednesday evening in Oakland County, Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An emergency call reporting the fire was placed at 6:30 p.m., with the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Independence Township Fire Department both responding to the call in the 7000 block of Clintonville Road, Independence Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was Larry Dean Goforth, who, deputies said was in a wheelchair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His wife, age 72, told first responders that she lost sight of him amid the dense smoke. She then got out of the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First responders twice tried to get inside the home from different locations to rescue the man, &#8220;but were driven back by thick smoke, intense heat and flames each time,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were eventually able to reach Goforth and get him out. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said an autopsy on Thursday determined that the cause of death was smoke inhalation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His wife was taken to a hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, and released on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation by the Sheriff&#8217;s Office Fire Investigations Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 87-year-old man is dead, and his wife was injured, in the aftermath of a house fire Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[24227,6978,143,904,46856,145,144],"class_list":["post-284054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fatal-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-county-sheriff039s-office","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}