The man who was killed earlier this month when his Marlborough home caught fire in the middle of the night has been identified as 83-year-old Robert Hranek, the Massachusetts State Fire Marshal’s Office said Thursday.
On May 12, Marlborough police and firefighters responded to 11 Hanlon Drive around 4:35 a.m. after a passerby reported the fire, the fire marshal’s office said previously. At the scene, they found the single-family home fully engulfed in flames and fire venting through the roof, but did not hear smoke alarms sounding.
Firefighters soon learned that Hranek — the home’s sole resident — was believed to still be inside the house, the fire marshal’s office said. They found him unresponsive inside the home and carried him out, but he died at a hospital later that morning…