Police say man dies after jumping out of a burning building
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Police say a man on the fourth floor of a burning commercial building in Connecticut has jumped to his death.
Shelton police say they received calls saying the building was engulfed in flames around 5 a.m. Saturday.
When emergency workers arrived, they found a badly burned and injured man at the foot of the building. Police later identified him as 69-year-old Randol Rios of Shelton.
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Detectives discovered Rios worked at Machine Builders of New England, which occupied the fourth floor of the building.
Police say an early investigation found Rios had jumped from a window to escape the fire. He was pronounced dead at Bridgeport Hospital.
A Shelton firefighter injured while fighting the blaze was treated at the hospital and released.