Mother and newborn identified as victims in Vermont blaze

By YARDAIN AMRON

VtDigger

Published: 01-07-2025 9:30 AM

The two victims of a house fire in Sandgate, Vt., on New Year’s Day have been identified as a young mother and her newborn son, Vermont State Police said in a press release Friday. 

Following autopsies at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, the victims were identified as Nicole Grogan, 22, and her 12-day-old son, Oliver Stratton, according to the press release.

Two survivors of the fire remain hospitalized in New York, state police said.

The Arlington Fire Department first responded to a “heavy fire” around 11:30 a.m. at the home on Chunks Brook Road in the Bennington County town. 

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.