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Steven Summers died at Massachusetts General Hospital on
Tuesday evening after suffering critical burns in the inferno,
said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of
Safety.
There was a party at the two-story residence on Halloween last
Friday before the fire started early the next morning,
McCausland said. The blaze was in an advanced state by the time
that Portland firefighters began getting calls at around 7 a.m.
local time.
Five people were confirmed dead, while one other person was
treated and released and seven tenants manage to escape safely
from the building, officials said.
One person managed to escape by jumping out a second-floor
window, according to the Portland Press Herald newspaper.
The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
McCausland said the fire was the deadliest since a house fire
killed a mother and her six children in the town of Eagle Lake
in 1974.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco)
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