Man killed in East Dublin structure fire

Fire investigators were called to look into a fatal fire early Wednesday morning on Clover Street in East Dublin.

According to Bryce Rawson, director of legislative affairs for the Office of Insurance Commissioner John F. King, its office was requested to assist in the fire at woodsided backyard shop which was being used as a dwelling.

The cause of the fire was undetermined, though no foul play is suspected at this time, Rawson said.

Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley believes the victim is a 39-year-old man from East Dublin. He said a neighbor called Laurens County 911 around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday about a fire at 317 Clover St.

“There was a shelter out back at this residence that was completely engulfed with fire,” Stanley said. “East Dublin Fire and Laurens County Fire Departments arrived on the scene and put the fire out and notified me to come to the scene because there was a deceased body lying inside there.” 

Stanley pronounced the man dead at the scene at 5:01 a.m. The man had been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Crime Lab in Atlanta for positive identification purposes and to determine the cause of death.

“We’re going to have to identify him through dental records,” Stanley said. “I’m going to hold off giving the name until I make sure it’s him.”