Victim ID'ed in fatal Weathersfield fire
WARREN — The Trumbull County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died in a fire late Friday on Tibbetts-Wick Road in Weatherfield Township as Andrea Vigorito, 79.
The cause and manner of death is not available, the coroner’s office said.
A neighbor called 911 at 11:30 p.m. Friday after hearing an explosion and seeing an orange flash and blue light “like a gas explosion” coming from Vigorito’s house.
The explosion blew off part of the house, and the roof and second floors had fallen into the first floor by the time Weathersfield firefighters arrived.
Several departments helped put out the fire, and officials found Vigorito’s body the next afternoon while using an excavator.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office is handling the investigation into the cause.