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Woman, 57, Dog Killed In Englewood Fire Woman, 57, Dog Killed In Englewood Fire
Woman, 57, Dog Killed In Englewood Fire A 57-year-old Englewood woman and her dog were killed in a Monday night fire apparently ignited by a cigarette, authorities said. A Grove Street resident who’d been out for the evening called 911 after smelling and then seeing smoke coming from a detached garage apartment where Clare Mackin lived around 10 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Tuesday. Firefighters doused the two-alarm blaze and found the body of the victim, who “apparently succumbed to the intense heat and was unable to exit the structure,” Halstead said. Also killed was her dog, responders said. No other injur…

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