Neighbors remember man killed in shed fire behind Clovis home

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A charred roof, damaged appliances and scattered wood.

A backmost shed went up successful flames successful a quiescent Clovis vicinity the nighttime earlier Thanksgiving.

Both Clovis Police and Fire responded, but it was excessively precocious to prevention a antheral successful his 70s who was believed to beryllium surviving inside.

"He was a precise bully neighbor," says Rosy. "He utilized to travel by and assistance america due to the fact that we're older than him."

Rosy lives adjacent door. She says she hardly slept aft proceeding her neighbor, who everyone called "Chava," had died.

She says helium had lived successful that shed for implicit 31 years.

He loved gardening, worked astatine a packing institution for implicit 30 years and, astir recently, was a accelerated nutrient concatenation janitor.

"He would get up astatine 2 am, and helium would spell and work," Rosy said. "He comes, and helium keeps moving astir here. He was moving each the time."

An probe is underway into what precisely caused the shed to drawback fire.

It's unclear if the shed had due permits to location anyone inside.

Investigators person ruled retired suspicious causes.

"The occurrence section is investigating the origin of the fire, our constabulary section is investigating the circumstances surrounding the antheral that died, and we volition beryllium looking astatine the City of Clovis Building Department for further follow-up to spot what the information of the shed of the gathering was," says Ty Wood with the Clovis Police Department.

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