Town of Ulster police and fire investigators are trying to determine how and why a 33-year-old man died in a fire in the mobile home where he lived Wednesday morning, according to a press release.
The man’s identity had not been released as of Wednesday evening, pending notification of relatives.
Neighbors said the man lived alone and kept to himself. The grass in front of the mobile home on Station Road was uncut and a dark-colored Nissan Altima appeared not to have been moved recently.
A neighbor walking her dog shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday saw smoke coming from the trailer where the man lived. Her husband called 911 at 5:08 a.m. Efforts to arouse the man and get him out failed, neighbors said.
Police and firefighters were on the scene within minutes. They found the man and got him out and took him to Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley but he was pronounced dead there, according to a press release from the Town of Ulster Police Department.