Man Dies After Lit Cigarette Catches his Apartment on Fire [Sandy Lake, PA]

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Man Dies After Lit Cigarette Catches his Apartment on Fire
Story from the WFMJ TV21 Web Site on 12/16/2007.

A fire started by a cigarette left burning claims the life of a Mercer County man.

The blaze broke out around 2 in the morning on Saturday at an apartment on South Main Street in Sandy Lake.

46-year-old David Longmore died in the fire after a lit cigarette caused his apartment to go up in flames.

Longmore lived above the office of Dr. William Prenatt.  The doctors office along with another apartment only sustained water and smoke damage.

There is no word on damage estimates at this time.