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Elderly Woman Dies in Apartment Fire  

Jump to full article: WXIN-TV Fox 59 (Indiannapolis, IN), 2009-11-23

Intro:

The chair where Willa Mae Fossett would sit in the lobby of the Indiana Avenue apartments is empty. Behind a closed door at about 4:30 am fire broke out in her apartment. . . .

"Something caught fire in her bed. . . .

The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But the housing director says he's attempting to convince his board to ban smoking in all public housing units.

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