SIMI VALLEY : Smoking Blamed for House Fire Fatality
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An elderly Simi Valley woman who apparently had been smoking in bed died when her house caught fire early Friday morning, county fire officials said.
Jane Dinsmore, 81, was found in a hallway, dead of smoke inhalation. Dinsmore was attempting to escape the fire in her bedroom, officials said.
Firefighters from a new station just a block away arrived at the Congressional Road duplex at 1:20 a.m. and contained the fire by 1:45 a.m., officials said.
The fire caused $60,000 in damage before it was extinguished. No one else was in the house at the time of the one-alarm fire, officials said. Dinsmore’s daughter, Beth, also lived at the home, but was away on business, officials said.
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