REVERE – A Campbell Avenue resident returned home Sunday to find his family’s apartment was destroyed and that his neighbor had died in a three-alarm fire.”I looked up and thought, ?What is going on, our house burned down!'” Fani Kastani, 22, said outside of the Campbell Avenue property Sunday.Firefighters reported responding at 8:42 p.m. Saturday to a report of a fire at 190 Campbell Ave., a four-story apartment building near Revere Beach.A 64-year-old resident of the home died in the fire, according to a statement from the office of Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.”Although the cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, there was no preliminary evidence to suggest it was intentionally set,” Conley spokesman Jake Wark said in an email Sunday.Wark said the office was not yet releasing the name of the victim, and the incident remained under investigation.The deceased was reportedly found in a closet of the building, and another resident and two Revere firefighters were injured in the blaze, which started on the third floor and spread rapidly through the building, the Associated Press reported. The Red Cross says three dozen people were driven out by the fire.Dennis Fitzmeyer was at the scene and said his brother was the victim’s roommate in a third-floor apartment. Fitzmeyer said his brother was taken to the hospital and released.He described the deceased as a veteran who was originally from Pennsylvania and a “nice guy.””He was just friendly,” Fitzmeyer said.Kastani said he, his wife and 3-month-old daughter were in Worcester Saturday night and returned home about 5 p.m. Sunday to find the house boarded up and a big charred hole in the side of their apartment. He said the family had no idea there was a fire at the house.”I don’t ever check the news, and now everybody’s calling me,” Kastani said, as his phone rang. “We got lucky we weren’t here ? we would have been screwed; everything is gone in the house.”Kastani said he didn’t know the deceased very well but described him as friendly and as somebody who always said hello when they passed on the stairs.Neighbor Victor Villena said he was just relaxing when he began having trouble breathing, so he looked outside. “I said, ?Oh, my God, the house is on fire,” Villena said.Villena said he was shocked.Nearly two weeks ago, on July 28, he had been driving down Broadway when the wind started whipping and a tornado touched down. He brought out a copy of the Revere Journal, which showed him and his damaged car in the aftermath of the storm.”I couldn’t get out of the car, everything was flying, and now this,” Villena said. “I don’t know if things are chasing me or what.”Kastani was also shocked.”Never in a million years do you think it would happen to you,” he said, looking up at his former apartment.
