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Carryduff house fire: 91-year-old man dies Carryduff fire: 91-year-old man dies as neighbour's house fire spreads
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A 91-year-old man has died in a house fire in Carryduff, on the outskirts of Belfast. A 91-year-old man has died after an overnight fire near his house engulfed his property in Carryduff, on the outskirts of Belfast.
Fire crews were called to a house off the Hillsborough Road just before 01:00 BST on Tuesday. Samuel Carson died after a blaze in the garage of a house at Thorndale Park, off the Hillsborough Road, caused his home to go up in flames.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, but police have said they do not believe there were any suspicious circumstances. Firefighters responded to a call of an oil tank on fire at the neighbour's house at about 01:00 BST on Tuesday.
It is understood the house directly behind where the blaze happened was also damaged. Mr Carson was removed from his home but he died at the scene.
BBC News NI reporter Rick Faragher said neighbours told him that the man lived alone. Police have said they do not believe the cause of the fire was suspicious.
'Large flames' The pastor of Carryduff Baptist Church, Gordon Walker, said the tragedy had left the family shaken.
"One woman who lives two doors down from the property told me she heard multiple explosions, as many as five. "One of his daughters was actually here when they brought him out of the house and you know there will come a day when he is going to be taken away from us.
"She and the rest of the small street came out to see what was happening and saw what she called large flames. "But to go in this way, I think that just processing that is going to be the most challenging thing over the next few days."
"The fire services were quickly at the scene. It took around 20 minutes to put the fire out." "Tragic"
He described the damage that had been caused. In a statement, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said: "Firefighters rescued a 91-year-old man from the property, and alongside ambulance personnel they carried out CPR, but sadly the man died at the scene."
"There's extensive damage to the garage, the wooden doors at the front and the back have been blown off it, but there's no major damage that I can see to the main structure of the house, certainly what ever these explosions were, the impact and the noise was clearly significant." The firefighter in charge of the operation, group commander Kevin O'Neill, described the circumstances of the fire as "tragic".
"When we arrived we saw that the fire had spread from the garage to an oil tank, which had ruptured causing the rupture of a second oil tank, and the running heating oil from these two oil tanks ran downhill into another property, and the occupant in that property subsequently died as a a result of the fire," Mr O'Neill said.
The blaze that had damaged the bungalow, the garage and the oil tanks took about four hours to bring under control and was dealt with by 05:00 BST.
'Multiple explosions'
BBC News NI reporter Rick Faragher, who went to the scene on Tuesday morning, said neighbours told him that Mr Carson lived alone.
"One woman who lives two doors down from the property told me she heard multiple explosions, as many as five," he said.
"She and the rest of the small street came out to see what was happening and saw what she called large flames."
About 40 firefighters, seven fire appliances and a command support unit were involved in the operation.