A funeral home fire in East Greenwich has been deemed an "accident." Rhode Island Fire Marshal Tim McLaughlin told NBC 10 on Monday that the Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home and Cremations fire started in the fireplace.

David Ucci remembers waking up early Sunday morning to a devastating phone call from the East Greenwich Police Department.

A funeral director was called a hero after a fire tore through Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home in East Greenwich in the early morning of Feb. 2. “I had never seen anything like that in person before, it was incredible,

Crews from multiple departments responded to a large fire at Hill Funeral Home in East Greenwich Sunday morning.Around 3:58 a.m. Sunday morning, crews responded to reports of a structure fire on Main Street.

The cause of the fire that broke out at a historic funeral home in East Greenwich was determined to be accidental.

Both ladder pipes froze during the operation forcing crews to work around it, East Greenwich Fire Chief William Perry said.

Ucci was standing in the darkness watching the flames devour the building and discussing the situation with two East Greenwich police officers, Anthony Pescarino and David William

An East Greenwich funeral home director ran into a burning building to protect four deceased individuals after a fire.