MACON, Ga. — A man was found dead in a house fire Sunday morning, according to a Macon-Bibb County coroner.
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department says they received a call just before 7 a.m. for a house fire in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood.
The house was on Monroe Street and Fourth Avenue, and when officials arrived at the home, they found a dead body inside, according to Chief Coroner Leon Jones.
"Our first companies that got on the scene went in and did an initial attack on the structure and got the fire knocked down, and then at that point, that's when we found the victim," Assistant Fire Chief Shane Edwards said.
However, Jones says no one was supposed to be living there.
There was an ID close by, but because of the condition of the body, officials say they'll have to confirm the identity through the crime lab. The victim is a black male, according to Jones.
Frank Barnes lives nearby and says he usually hears everything that goes on in the neighborhood, but not this time.
"And this is what I found--this... It's just chilling. It hurts, but then again there is nothing you can do about it, but I hate it happened," Barnes said.
Edwards says the man also had a dog that passed in the fire, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
We'll update this story as more information becomes available.
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