{"id":373402,"date":"2026-10-14T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:50:26","slug":"man-killed-in-staten-island-apartment-fire-identified-cause-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373402\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Staten Island apartment fire identified; cause under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CDMNV3BANJB2REUTK2PY33UJ3Y\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The NYPD identified Tudine Morton as the man who died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/10\/one-dead-another-injured-in-clifton-apartment-building-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/10\/one-dead-another-injured-in-clifton-apartment-building-fire.html\">a fire at an apartment building in Clifton<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3HEALXSYVNDXDL3WE5Z5HQN6HY\">Morton, 54, lived in the apartment building at 225 Park Hill Avenue where the fire occurred, according to a statement from the NYPD\u2019s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"72TQOPBNLFE6PMXMCWMU7XJ34E\">Officials said 21 FDNY units and 79 firefighters responded to the blaze that was reported at 8:08 p.m. on the second floor of the six-story building. The fire was brought under control in about an hour, at 9:15 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZDWSBTQ4TRAORPVJTOGW4KM2CM\">Morton was found unconscious and unresponsive when authorities arrived at the building. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2FIO3LGNXBAS5MC2OW5LNUVVEM\">The fire is believed to have started in Morton\u2019s apartment, where he was located by first responders, according to a law enforcement source. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MGS3HD2D3BDOBAGNPGRURFYK7E\">The origin and cause of the fire remain under investigation, an FDNY spokesperson said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The NYPD identified Tudine Morton as the man who died in a fire at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-373402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}