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VIDEO: Lit Cigarette Blamed For Fatal Assisted-Living Home Fire 

Wheelchair-Bound Residents Carried Down Stairs Amid Evacuation
Jump to full article: WTAE-TV 4 (Pittsburgh, PA), 2009-10-14
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BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. --

The state fire marshal said a lit cigarette is to blame for a fire at an assisted living high-rise that killed an 86-year-old woman.

More than 100 senior citizens were evacuated Monday from the 11-story Bridgeville Towers at 479 Bank St.

Fire crews were called to the building shortly after 7 p.m. and found Dorothy Haskins burned inside a fourth-floor apartment, where the fire started.

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