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Jump to full article: WPIX-TV (New York, NY), 2009-11-12
Author: SHELLEY NG wpix.com
Intro: A fatal house fire broke out at a Nassau County house early Thursday morning in Long Island.
The two and a half story home located at 10 Sutton Lane in Hewlett was already engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at around 3 a.m.
The body of an 86-year-old man was found dead inside a second floor bathroom. Firefighters say the man was the homeowner and the only person in the home at the time of the fire.
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"We have indication from family members on the scene that the deceased was a heavy smoker and, at times, was possibly careless in the way he smoked and used his smoking materials," Nassau County Fire Marshall Vincent McManus told PIX News, "That's one thing we'll be looking at as far as [the] cause [of the fire]."
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