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Smoking in bed ignited apartment fire » Knoxville News Sentinel 

Jump to full article: Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, 2010-07-28
Author: News Sentinel staff

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An arson investigator determined a fire at a Christenbery Heights apartment where a woman was found dead was caused by smoking in bed.

"The cause of the fire, I can safely say, was smoking in bed," Knoxville Fire Department Fire Investigator Darrell Whitaker said this morning.

While Whitaker is clear on what caused the flames about 5:20 a.m. Saturday, July 24, at 320 Tiberious Road, he's not yet confident as to what killed 52-year-old Marissa Boatwright.

Firefighters found Boatwright's badly burned body in the bed where the fire started.

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