UPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – One person died when fire destroyed a 19th-century home and damaged an adjoining antique shop in south Jersey early Wednesday.

State Police spokesman Christopher Kay says the victim was found dead in the rubble several hours later, adding there does not appear to have been a second victim as originally feared.

Firefighters encountered a fully engulfed building when they arrived at the scene of the burning two-story wood-frame house on Route 9 in Upper Township just before 2 a.m.

The Press of Atlantic City reported that neighbors identified the victim as Henry Peech, whose father, Fred Peech, ran an antique shop there for decades until his death in January 2010.

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