An elderly man was killed and his adult son seriously injured when a fire engulfed the second floor of their home on Long Island, authorities said Monday.
Barry Garfman, 82, was pronounced dead at the scene of the blaze in Huntington Station, the Suffolk County Police Department said in an alert.
His son, 42-year-old Dustin Garfman, was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries, cops said. Barry and Dustin lived in the residence together.
A 911 caller reported flames coming from the home around 11:15 p.m. Sunday, Suffolk police said. Five different local fire departments responded to extinguish the blaze, about 30 miles east of Central Park.
The flames were most intense in a second-floor room on the left side of the two-story house, according to video shared on Facebook by the Huntington Manor Fire Department. The first floor of the home remained relatively calm in the video.
Investigators were still probing the cause of the fire on Monday, but Suffolk police said it “does not appear to be criminal in nature at this time.”
The fire followed a similar incident in Suffolk County two weeks earlier, when a mother and son were killed in a house fire in Smithfield on Nov. 30.
Christine Lehmann, 52, and her 25-year-old son, Nicholas, were killed in that blaze, which was more intense and required two hours of work from 80 firefighters across eight departments before it was extinguished.
