Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad and Arson Squad detectives are investigating a house fire that killed two men and critically injured a woman in Mastic.
Police and firefighters from Mastic, Center Moriches and Brookhaven Fire Departments responded to 43 Broadway after a 911 call was received from a neighbor. After gaining entry, firefighters removed two men and one woman from the home. A 64 year old male, of 43 Broadway, was transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Center in East Patchogue . The other male, whose identification is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. Both men were pronounced dead despite life-saving attempts by medical personnel at both hospitals.