Feb. 13, 2023 Several people in the Saranac house managed to escape.
By Mike Goodwin Source Times Union, Albany, N.Y.(TNS) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Feb. 13—SARANAC — Two adults and a child died in a house fire Saturday in this Adirondacks Mountain town west of Plattsburgh.
State Police said troopers and firefighters got to the home on Strackville Road at about 3:33 a.m. to investigate a report of people trapped inside a burning building.
The two-story home was engulfed in fire when rescuers arrived, troopers said.
Troopers said they found Robert D. Velie, 21, of Saranac; Katelynn D. Damour, 23, of Chateauguay, and 2-year-old Diesel A. Cook of Peru, dead inside the home.
Clinton County Emergency Services Director Eric Day told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh a number of people were at the house when the fire began.
“Several were able to escape the blaze,” he said. However, three occupants were unable to exit the building.”
Fire departments from around the region battled the fire.
State Police and state fire investigators are investigating the cause of the fire, but so far, the troopers said, there is no evidence of suspicious activity.