Deadly Central Texas Fire Under Investigation
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Deadly Central Texas Fire Under Investigation
State and local investigators are looking for the cause of a weekend house fire that left one person dead and another injured.
Reporter: By Paul J. Gately
Email Address: paul.gately@kwtx.com
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(January 5, 2009)—Hill County fire investigators, sheriff's deputies and the state Fire Marshal’s Office are looking into the cause of a weekend house fire that killed one person and injured another.

The identity of the person who was killed has not yet been released, but the body was sent for autopsy.

Information about the identity and condition of the injured person was not available Monday.

Hill County Justice of the Peace Eugene Fulton pronounced the person dead at the scene on Saturday night.

The fire was confined to the home in the 200 block of College St., in Penelope, in southeastern Hill County.

Five fire departments were sent to the scene to battle the flames.
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