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Cigarette, medical oxygen may have led to fatal fire in Bloomingdale 

A Kingsport woman was killed early Saturday morning in a fire that an investigator with the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office says was started from a possible combination of a cigarette and medical oxygen.

Judy Fay Winegar, 64, of 188 Bancroft Chapel Road, was found by her son in the kitchen of her mobile home with severe burns to her body. Arson investigators arrived at the scene and discovered the fire started at the couch in the living room where the victim usually slept.

Police were told that the victim did smoke and oxygen lines were found near the couch area

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