Smoking eyed as possible cause in fatal Queens fire: sources

Investigators are looking into whether a discarded cigarette sparked a Queens house fire that killed an elderly man, police sources said.

The victim, 72-year-old Gary Scott, was a heavy smoker, sources told the Daily News on Wednesday. Firefighters pulled him out of a second-floor bathroom of a...

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