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    Newport, TN Family of Five Killed in Fatal Fire

    Jan. 27, 2003

    Source The Newport Plain Talk

    PHOTO BY Steve Blanchett
    Newport Police Chief Clay Webb, center, confers with Newport Fire Chief Wayne Butler Saturday morning at the scene of a house fire which claimed the lives of a Newport couple and their three children. © 2003 NPT
    Newport Police Chief Clay Webb, center, confers with Newport Fire Chief Wayne Butler Saturday morning at the scene of a house fire which claimed the lives of a Newport couple and their three children. © 2003 NPT
    NEWPORT -Smoke and flames claimed the lives of all five members of a Newport family Saturday morning in a fire which investigators believe was started by smoldering fireplace coals which ignited hay on the front porch of the residence.

    Newport Fire Chief Wayne Butler said the death toll in Sunday

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