Carbon monoxide intoxication from a fire in the rooming house where he lived killed 58-year-old Gordon Wanser, the Luzerne County Coroner's Office said Friday.

The manner of his death remains undetermined while police and fire officials continue their investigation into the cause of the fire at 104 E. Broad St. on Wednesday evening.

An autopsy for Wanser was done Friday at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Fire sent two other residents to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton, and they and eight others are homeless because of the damage to the building, which Hazleton Fire Chief Donald Leshko said will have to be demolished.

The building has holes in the roof and is gutted inside. On Wednesday, Leshko said firefighters arrived at the building 80 seconds after receiving a call, but fire already shot out the front and back.

On Thursday afternoon, Hazleton firefighters, Hazleton police and a state police fire marshal searched the building. They seek to learn how and where in the building the fire started. Records at City Hall show code or health officers noticed issues at the building twice in the past four years. On June 13, 2012, the city issued a notice of violation requiring repairs to the front porch floor, Mayor Jeff Cusat said while reading from the Code Enforcement Office's file about the building. A roof leak or drainage problems was mentioned in a report from Nov. 21, 2013.

James Ferry of the Code Enforcement Office said he checked with a retired health officer who said all the issues with the building had been addressed. In rooming homes, there is no limit to the number of residents allowed, according to building codes that Hazleton follows. Rather, rooming homes must provide adequate space for each resident. The International Property Maintenance Code, for example, requires bedrooms to have at least 7 0 square feet of floor space.

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