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Cigarette Causes Deadly Nursing Home Fire in Green Cove Springs 

he Fire Marshal's office says careless smoking started a fire in a nursing home. The Fire Marshal tells First Coast News the victim was smoking next to an oxygen tank while in bed and the bed caught fire.

"What we have is a case of careless smoking. This is our preliminary findings. We've eliminated other causes. We have identified some paraphernalia related to smoking", says Lieutenant Robby Stephens with State Fire Marshall's Office.

It happened at the Governor's Creek Health and Rehab center.

We're told the man who died was in his sixties. Authorities have not yet released any more information on the victim.

Nine people were hurt in the fire.

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