A man was rescued from a Mastic house fire on Saturday afternoon. 
Suffolk County police officers and Mastic Fire Department firefighters responded to a 911 call of a man trapped in a burning house on Meadowmere Avenue at 5:30 p.m. Officers, firefighters and neighbors used ladders to rescue Christopher Murphy from the first floor, police said.
The 48-year-old was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center where he was in stable condition. His 47-year-old wife, Janet Murphy, and son, Sean Murphy, 14, were treated for smoke inhalation along with several firefighters, officers and neighbors.
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Firefighters extinguished the flames. Arson Squad detectives determined that the fire originated in a basement bedroom and was accidental in nature, caused by the failure of a box fan in the room.
