Car Fire
The Vermont State Police is investigating a car fire Monday morning, Feb. 17 in the town of Warren and the discovery of a body inside the vehicle.
The fire was reported by a passerby at about 11:30 a.m. at a parking area at 500 Vermont Rte. 100. Members of the Warren Fire Department responded to the scene, extinguished the blaze, and located a deceased individual in the vehicle’s driver’s seat.
Members of the Vermont State Police were called to the scene, including uniformed troopers, a detective with the Bureau of Criminal Investigations, and a detective with the Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit. Initial evidence gathered at the scene does not indicate this is a suspicious event.
The body will be brought to the Chief Medical examiner’s Office in Burlington for an autopsy to determine identity and the cause and manner of death. FEIU is investigating he origin and cause of the vehicle fire.
State police ask that anyone with information about this incident call the Berlin Barracks at (802) 229-9191 or provide an anonymous tip online at vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.
No additional details are available at this time. VSP will provide updates as the case proceeds.
Update: Following autopsy at the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, the deceased individual is identified as Jeremiah Wild, of Craftsbury. The autopsy determined his cause of death to be thermal burns and smoke inhalation. The manner of death is classified as undetermined.
VSP’s investigation is ongoing, but the death is not considered suspicious.
