The two victims of a house fire in Sandgate on New Year’s Day have been identified as a young mother and her newborn son, Vermont State Police said in a press release Friday.
Following autopsies at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, the victims were identified as Nicole Grogan, 22, and her 12-day-old son, Oliver Stratton, according to the press release.
Two survivors of the fire remain hospitalized in New York, state police said.
The Arlington Fire Department first responded to a “heavy fire” around 11:30 a.m. at the home on Chunks Brook Road in the Bennington County town.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
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