A body was found Friday in a burning home in Citrus Heights, and authorities are investigating the death as suspicious.
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel were called just before noon to a single-family home on the 7500 block of Oak Grove Avenue near Auburn Boulevard, where significant flames and reports of explosions had occurred.
Battalion Chief Parker Wilbourn, a spokesman for Metro Fire, said firefighters entered the five-bedroom home to lay hose lines when they discovered a body, he said.
While the fire was quickly extinguished, Wilbourn said Citrus Heights police were called to the property to investigate the death of a man believed to be the home’s sole occupant, according to radio reports reviewed by The Sacramento Bee. Fire investigators were also dispatched to the home, according to Metro Fire logs.
The man’s identity is expected to be released by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office once family members are notified of the death.
