A 79-year-old Petersburg man died following a trailer fire over the weekend.
A report from KFSK FM named the victim as Frank T. Neidiffer.
Petersburg Fire Department spokesperson Dave Berg says one end of the trailer was ablaze when firefighters arrived about 3 a.m. Saturday. They were able to put out the fire fairly quickly, and Neidiffer was found in the kitchen.
“The police, upon arrival, took out one of the doors but were overcome by smoke and had to back away,” Berg said. “The smoke was very thick coming out of the available doors in the unit. So, upon arrival of our first engine we sent in a search team with a hose line and after just a short amount of time another engine showed up, we completed our lay of hose lines and continued the search and we found an individual who was on the floor of the kitchen.”
Neidiffer was taken to the Petersburg Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
– KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki contributed to this story.
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