Fire in mobile home kills young couple

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By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Oct 12, 2008 at 2:01 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 12, 2008 at 2:01 PM EST

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a young couple was killed in a mobile home after it caught fire after 3 a.m. Saturday.

Kyle Chapman is the manager of the Richmond Mobile Home Park. He says neighbors pounded on the windows of the home in an effort to awaken Randy Webb and Cassie Lowrance, a couple in their 20s.

But Chapman says it was too late, and flames were already coming through the roof and out the sides of their mobile home.

Webster Township Volunteer Fire Chief Dennis Hollingsworth says the fire may have been sparked by a space heater, but the Indiana State Fire Marshal was still investigating.

No one else in the mobile home park was hurt. Chapman says Lowrance's 2-year-old son was staying with his father in Fort Wayne when the fire started.

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Information from: Palladium-Item, http://www.pal-item.com

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