By Khalida Sarwari
A man who died in a fire at his home in a San Jose retirement community last month has been identified as 82-year-old Billy Hoover, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office.
The two-alarm fire occurred on the morning of June 14 at a triplex at 3409 Lake Garda Drive in San Jose’s The Villages retirement community, fire Capt. Chuck Rangel said.
Hoover’s body was found in a bedroom, he said. A housekeeper also suffered from smoke inhalation but was not taken to a hospital.
The fire caused an estimated $3,000 worth of damage to the structure and contents of the home.
The official cause of the fire has not been determined, but investigators are not ruling out smoking, Rangel said.