Officials say firefighters responded to Albemarle Avenue in Hempstead about 6 p.m. Saturday to put out the blaze.
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After the flames were extinguished, firefighters found a man's body. Officials say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
"It is a vacant property, so we had a neighbor state that he saw the fire and called the fire into us," Hempstead Fire Department Chief James Joyce said.
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The homicide and arson bomb squad detectives are investigating. Officials have not released the identity of the man.
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