{"id":60229,"date":"2026-06-15T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=60229"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:16:15","slug":"p6-6-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p6-6-14-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kentucky State Police Post 6 Dry Ridge Investigates a Fatal Fire in Bracken County\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BROOKSVILLE, Ky. (June 14, 2026)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 On June 14, 2026, the Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 6 Dry Ridge was notified by Bracken County Dispatch of a residential fire in the Brooksville Community of Bracken County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While extinguishing a structure fire, firefighters discovered human remains inside the residence. Because of the condition of the remains there are no identifications currently at this time. The Bracken County Coroner pronounced deceased at 0141 hours. The Autopsy will be performed at the medical examiner&#8217;s office in Frankfort, Ky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case remains under investigation by Detective Matthew Purvis. Det. Purvis was assisted on scene by KSP personnel, Bracken County EMS, Bracken County Coroner\u2019s Office, Bracken County Sheriff&#8217;s office, along with the Brooksville Fire Departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;# # #&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKSVILLE, Ky. (June 14, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 On June 14, 2026, the Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 6 Dry Ridge was notified by Bracken County Dispatch of a residential fire in the Brooksville Community of Bracken County. While extinguishing a structure fire, firefighters discovered human remains inside the residence. Because of the condition of the remains there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,59],"tags":[1345,167],"class_list":["post-60229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-6","tag-arson-investigation","tag-post-6"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Arson-Investigation-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60230,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60229\/revisions\/60230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}