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Early Thursday morning, firefighters in Gilboa battled a fire that resulted in one person dead. The Putnam County Coroner has confirmed, the owner of the house, Jason Mansfield was the victim in the blaze. The 911 call came in right around midnight late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The entire house at 140 Franklin St. in Gilboa was engulfed in flames. One of the neighbors at 138 Franklin St. said everything happened so fast when sheriff’s deputies arrived at the fire.