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According to the Ocean County Prosecutors Office, Katarina Seboova, 73, a resident of the house, has been named as the victim who died in the residential fire on Heron Street in Manchester Township on Sunday, March 19, 2023.
The Ocean County Medical Examiner's Office examined Ms. Seboova post-mortem on March 20, 2023. According to the results of the investigation, Ms. Seboova's death was unintentional and her cause of death was suffocation from smoke inhalation.
Officials from the Manchester Township Police Department and Manchester Township Fire Departments were called to a reported structure fire on Heron Street on March 19, 2023, at around 6:50 p.m.
A female victim of the fire was rescued by first responders. The injured person was sent to Community Medical Center in Toms River, where they are currently listed in critical but stable condition. Ms. Seboova's body was found during the initial investigation of the house.
The fire started in a trash can at the northwest corner of a patio, and the cause of the fire was determined to be accidental due to discarded smoking material after a thorough and extensive investigation was carried out by the Ocean County Fire Marshal's Office, Manchester Township Police Department Detective Bureau, Ocean County Sheriff's Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, and Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Major Crime Unit-Arson Squad.
