A state police fire marshal says a damaged floor lamp cord caused a fire that killed an elderly western Pennsylvania couple last week.
Eighty-six-year-old Lisle Jobe and his 82-year-old wife, Norma, died in the fire Wednesday morning in their home in Indiana, Pa., about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The Indiana County Coroner says they died of smoke inhalation while trying to escape the fire.
On Tuesday, Trooper Timothy Frey has ruled the fire started in a family room where the damaged cord caused heat to build up and catching some material nearby to catch fire.
Frey, the fire marshal, has ruled the fire an accident.
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