One person is dead after an early morning apartment fire in Red Bank.Police say arson is to blame for an early morning Thanksgiving Day fire that left one man dead and several families homeless.
Red Bank firefighters responded to a call about 5 a.m. at a home on Hedgewood Drive, just off Dayton Boulevard’s No. 2 stoplight. There, they found the home engulfed, with flames overtaking a front window, front door and rear side of the home, said Hamilton County Emergency Services spokeswoman Amy Maxwell in a news release.
The fire was so intense that Red Bank requested aid from five other fire companies. The two-story white house is broken up into four apartments. Once firefighters learned that one person was trapped inside, they made their way to an upstairs apartment, Maxwell said.
“Once they found the victim, it was too late,” she said.
Police identified the victim as Dewey Lee Rose, 51, a resident of the apartment building.