A weekend fire on Peach Street (Route 19) in Waterford claimed a life.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out around 4:00 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of Route 19 and Route 86.<\/p>\n
The destruction of the multi-unit building is extensive. Authorities tell Erie News Now that the house collapsed into the basement during the firefight, that\u2019s when firefighters observed a body among the embers.<\/p>\n
Around 5:20 a.m., that\u2019s when fire officials called for a Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal to investigate – a requirement when a death is involved.<\/p>\n
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said that the Mercyhurst University Anthropology Department is assisting his office in working to make a positive identification of the male fire victim. According to Cook, all signs point to the victim being a person who lived the the residence.<\/p>\n
To date the PSP fire marshals have not issued their findings on what may have sparked the fire, nor released the name of the likely victim.<\/p>\n
The fire rekindled Saturday evening, calling firefighters back to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A weekend fire on Peach Street (Route 19) in Waterford claimed a life. The fire broke out around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,9521,25505,64137,16902,1224,24631,64136,29255],"class_list":["post-139798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-fire","tag-fire-marshal","tag-mercyhurst-university-anthropology-department","tag-peach-street","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-route-19","tag-route-86","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}