PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors refiled murder charges Wednesday against a man accused of causing the deaths of two firefighters by rigging a tangled array of lights and fans in his basement in an attempt to grow marijuana.
The decision came one day after a judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to show Daniel Brough, 35, intended anyone to get hurt when he set up the system. The wires caught fire in late August, and two firefighters were killed battling the blaze.
Though the Municipal Court judge reduced the most serious charge to involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors were allowed to refile the dismissed third-degree murder counts and present them to a judge in the Court of Common Pleas.
District Attorney Lynne Abraham said she believed Brough knew the lights were dangerous.
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