Firefighters battling an area apartment building blaze this morning made a grisly discovery.
Firefighters on the scene of the Allentown, Pa. apartment blaze told NBC10 that they found a man's body on the floor of a top story unit but that the body appeared to not be related to the fire.
The Lehigh County Coroner's office identifies the man as 46-year-old Richard Chaparro.
A toxicology test is pending, before authorities can determine how he died. Allentown Police and the Allentown Fire Department are both helping with the investigation.
A passerby saw the fire around 3:30 a.m. at a standalone building along the 2400 block of S 4th Street (by Ester Street) and called 911.
Firefighters said that there wasn't much of a fire by the time they got into the top of the building. And, that when they got into the top unit they found Chaparro's body in what appeared to be a total coincidence.
More than three hours after the blaze began, firefighters remained on the scene knocking down some hot spots.
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Police were investigating the blaze. A preliminary investigation showed that the fire appeared to have started in a ceiling fan and spread to to the roof. The roof of the structure appeared to be nearly gone.
