Man dies in hospital after Sunday’s Hamilton apartment fire

The Hamilton Fire Department says a person rescued from Sunday’s apartment fire was pronounced dead in hospital.

On Sunday, crews responded to a fire around 2 a.m. on the seventh floor of a building at 95 Hess St. South between Jackson and Hunter streets.

Upon arrival, firefighters found one man with burns to his face and body. He was taken to hospital in “grave to critical condition.”

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In a release on Thursday, Fire Chief Dave Cunliffe says this is the city’s third fatal fire so far this year.

Cunliffe says no additional information is available and the Office of the Fire Marshal is investigating this incident.

Fires have broken out in this apartment building before. Flames burned through two apartments and damaged others in 2017, and one man died in a fire in the building in 2020.