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Man killed in Wayne County house fire

UPDATE: 4:15 p.m. — A man was killed Monday morning during a house fire in Wayne County.

Firefighters with the Fort Gay Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire at a mobile home in the 2100 block of Mill Creek Road in Fort Gay at around 8:15 Monday morning.

Crews discovered a 65-year-old man in the home who was killed.

The name of the victim has not been released, and investigators say the cause of the fire is undetermined.

The victim’s body has been sent to the WV Chief Medical Examiner’s Officer for an autopsy.

FORT GAY, W.Va. — A Monday morning fire in Wayne County claimed a life.

Firefighters said the victim was found inside a mobile home that was gutted by flames along Mill Creek in the Fort Gay area Monday morning.

The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a possible cause of the blaze.

The name of the victim hasn’t been released.





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