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Man dies in fire on Youngstown's South Side
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Youngstown Fire Department and State Fire Marshal personnel investigate the scene of a fatal fire at 3144 Pine Hollow Drive in Youngstown on Monday night. Firefighters responded to a call at 6:55 p.m. and pulled a man from the house who later died. The man was identified as Andrew Douglas Jr., 45, who lived at the address.
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
The man who died in a duplex fire Monday evening on the city’s South Side has been identified as Andrew Douglas Jr., 45, of 3144 Pine Hollow Drive, where the fire occurred.
Despite a functioning smoke detector, firefighters found Douglas in the living room of his first-floor apartment and pulled him out of the house. Douglas was pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Fire Chief John O’Neill said he believes Douglas died of smoke inhalation.
The cause of the 6:55 p.m. blaze still is under investigation, but firefighters have no reason to believe it is suspicious, O’Neill said. “There were no strange indicators,” O’Neill said.
The blaze, which appeared to have originated in a first-floor bathroom, extended to the kitchen and up the back walls to the second-floor apartment and the third-floor finished attic of the wooden structure, O’Neill said.
Neighbors said Douglas was the only resident of the duplex at the time of the fire.
Damage was estimated at $20,000 to the house and its contents combined.