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3 Dead In Martinsville Mobile Home Fire

Reports say the smoke plume from the fire was visible for miles around.
Reports say the smoke plume from the fire was visible for miles around.

Authorities have identified one of three people who died in an overnight fire in central Indiana.

The Morgan County coroner’s office says 39-year-old David Fouts died in early Wednesday’s mobile home fire in the city of Martinsville.

Crews with the Martinsville Fire Department found his body and those of another man and a woman after they doused the flames. The other victims haven’t been identified.

The home was fully engulfed in flames when fire crews arrived at a mobile home park near State Road 37.

The fire’s cause hasn’t been determined. But firefighters know the flames spread quickly and two space heaters were being used in the home during a frigid night in Martinsville.