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A 21-year-old man was found dead at the QVC distribution center in North Carolina on Sunday, a day after a five-alarm fire burned through the facility.
Fire Search and Recovery members had located a body “on the outbound side of the loading dock” at the QVC building in Rocky Mount, the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
They said the deceased had been identified as 21-year-old Kevon Ricks, with QVC identifying the man as a contractor at the site.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Mr. Ricks as well as all team members affected by this tragedy,” the statement from the sheriff’s office said.
It comes after fire crews were called to the QVC center, a major employer in the area, at around 2a.m. on Saturday for a fire that was eventually declared a five-alarm blaze, the sheriff’s office said in an earlier statement.
“As members of local law enforcement and fire departments began to arrive it was determined that there was a fire inside one of the main warehouses,” the statement said.
Workers were still on the job at the facility when the fire broke out and the sheriff’s office had said one person had been unaccounted for.
Via: NBC News
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