A fire kills one person in a Miami house’s efficiency apartment, police say
One person was found dead after an overnight fire in the efficiency apartment of a Miami house, police said.
Police say they arrived at 3056 SW 13th St. around 2 a.m. to help Miami Fire Rescue.
“Upon arrival, units observed a fire coming from an efficiency located in the rear of the home,” an email from Miami police Ofc. Kiara Delva read. After Miami Fire Rescue got the fire under control, “a deceased victim was located inside of the efficiency.”
As Miami Fire Investigation and Miami police homicide detectives began an investigation, one person was detained. Police didn’t say whether or not that was connected to the fact that there was an efficiency apartment in the house, but Miami-Dade County property records say there’s only supposed to be one single family living unit on the property.
County records say Matias Zacconi bought the house on Oct. 6, 2022 from SG One Real Estate, and the last three “extra features,” a gazebo, a cement slab for a patio and a wood fence, were added in 1995. The house is listed as a single living unit, two bedrooms, one bathroom with 1,427-sq. ft. of living area.
Zacconi, who lives about a mile and a half away, didn’t answer a text message from the Miami Herald asking about the person in the efficiency or how many living units were in the house.
In April, 68-year-old Kenneth Pirraglia died in a Kendall home’s illegal garage apartment, one of several changes made to that property without a permit.
This story was originally published August 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM.
