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The man has been identified as a 54-year-old grandfather, Tracy "Duke" Emig, according to a release by the Northern York County Regional Police Department.
The fire was at the Meadow Run Mobile Home Park, as shown on Google Maps, and it was called into dispatch at 5:10 a.m., YCDES logs show.
Firefighters arrived at the home on fire in the 5100 block of North Susquehanna Trail in Conewago Township around 5:17 a.m. on July 11, according to YCDES.
By 5:38 a.m. they found Emig inside the home. He was unconscious "when he was removed from the home through the rear bedroom window by firefighters. Lifesaving efforts were started on scene," a detailed in a release from the NYCRPD.
Emig was then taken to York Hospital where he was later pronounced dead
Additional details about the death are expected from the coroner's office.
A Northern York County Regional Police Fire Investigator and Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshall conducted an investigation into the cause of the fire and determined that it began in the kitchen from an overloaded electrical power strip. "No smoke detectors were found in the home," the police said.
Duke was a York County native, according to his social media and public records. He struggled with addiction over the years, but worked to overcome it by utilizing recovery homes, according to public records and as stated on his social media. Once he was clean, he was thrilled to spend time with his children and grandchildren, who he clearly adored, filling his social media profiles with photos of all the children and babies he loved having back in his life.
A GoFundMe has been launched to help his family. The organizer wrote the following about Duke:
"Duke was such a great man would do anything for anybody willing to help anyone. He loved his his children and his grandchildren more than anything, and would do anything for them. Duke was one of a kind always trying to build something redo something. He was in the process of redoing his mobile home. He might of had his issues, but he was a great man and father and grandfather."
Click here to donate to the GoFundMe.
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