PEABODY, MASS. (WHDH) - State and local fire officials are searching for the cause of an early morning fire that consumed a mobile home in Peabody and left a man dead and a neighbor hospitalized.

Crews responding to a reported fire in a mobile home on Newbury Street around 5:30 a.m. said they could see the flames from nearby Route 1 and raced to keep the fire from spreading to nearby mobile homes, fire officials said.

Once the fire was extinguished, crews found the body of a man inside. His name has not been released.

A woman in her 70s who lived next door was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.

No additional information was immediately available.

The cause remains under investigation.

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