A man was killed in the house fire on St. Mary’s Drive in Jamesport early this morning, Suffolk Police said in a press release this afternoon.
The home at 66 St. Mary’s Drive was fully engulfed in flames when Riverhead Town Police arrived at the scene shortly after 4 a.m.
It is not known if anyone was in the home when the fire broke out.
A neighbor said she was awakened by the sound of “loud explosions, like a fireworks show” and when she looked out the window, “everything was orange. It looked like a bonfire.”
“The flames were as tall as the trees,” she said.
The heat from the flames melted the siding on the wall of her house facing the neighbor’s property.
Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad and Arson Section detectives are investigating the fire at 66 St. Mary’s Drive, police said.