Man in his 80s, dog dead in Foxborough fire

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“Our hearts go out to the family that lost a loved one this morning,” said Foxborough’s Fire Chief Michael Kelleher. “This is a sad day for them and our community.”

A man in his 80s and a dog were killed in a house fire in Foxborough early Tuesday morning, local fire officials said.

“Our hearts go out to the family that lost a loved one this morning,” Foxborough Fire Chief Michael Kelleher said in a press release. “This is a sad day for them and our community.”

Just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, the Foxborough Fire Department responded to a single-family home on Granite Street after a Foxborough police officer smelled smoke in the area, officials said.

When squads arrived the home was already consumed by fire “with flames venting through the windows,” Kelleher, Foxborough Police Chief Michael Grace, State Fire Marshal Jon Davine, and Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said in a joint press release.

Foxborough firefighters, plus firefighters from Mansfield and Plainville, worked to extinguish the flames.

Squads ultimately  suppressed “the bulk” of the fire within an hour, however the home sustained “major” damage, the officials wrote.

After a “careful search” inside the home, officials found a man in his 80s and a dog. Both were dead, the officials saids.

The man was the sole-resident of the home, officials said in the release.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, they said.