{"id":140195,"date":"2026-03-17T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140195\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:17:06","slug":"positive-identification-for-victim-of-weekend-waterford-fire-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140195\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Identification for Victim of Weekend Waterford Fire | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Weekend Fire Claims Life.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Mercyhurst University Anthropology Department is assisting investigators in a tragic fire over the weekend on Peach Street in Waterford.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 4 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>One person died after the destruction of the multi-unit building, which is extensive.<\/p>\n<p>The house collapsed into the basement during the firefight, and that\u2019s when firefighters spotted a body among the embers.<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook stated that the Mercyhurst University Anthropology Department assisted his office in making a positive ID of the male fire victim. Joseph Gradler, 45-years-old lost his life in the fire on Saturday. Cause of death is still unknown at this time pending toxicology report.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on what sparked the deadly fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mercyhurst University Anthropology Department is assisting investigators in a tragic fire over the weekend on Peach Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,9521,64308,6895,64307,64306],"class_list":["post-140195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-fire","tag-joseph-gradler","tag-mercyhurst-university","tag-victim-identification","tag-waterford-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140195","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=140195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}