{"id":285096,"date":"2026-04-25T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:10:15","slug":"man-dies-after-being-trapped-in-oakland-county-house-fire-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285096\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Being Trapped In Oakland County House Fire: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI \u2014 An eldery man died after he wasn&#8217;t able to escape a house fire Wednesday in Oakland County, according to sheriff&#8217;s officials.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 7000 block of Clintonville Road in Independence Township, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters entered the burning home twice to try and rescue the elderly man but were driven back by thick smoke and intense heat each time, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually made their way into the home and found 87-year-old Larry Dean Goforth, who was taken to a nearby hospital where he died, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy determined Goforth died from smoke inhalation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Goforth was wheelchair-bound and unable to escape the burning home.<\/p>\n<p>His 72-year-old wife told officials that she lost sight of him in the dense smoke and left the house, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>She was also taken to a nearby hospital where she was treated for smoke inhalation and later released, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were still investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI \u2014 An eldery man died after he wasn&#8217;t able to escape a house fire Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-285096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285096","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=285096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}