CASWELL (AP) – An 84-year-old man died Saturday night in a house fire in northern Maine that started after he stacked wood on his wood-burning stove to dry out.
Joseph Cote’s body was found at the foot of the basement stairs in his single-family home in Caswell, 60 miles north of Houlton, Public Safety Department spokesman Stephen McCausland said Sunday. The fire was reported by someone passing by before 9 p.m.
Three investigators from the fire marshal’s office were sent to the scene, McCausland said.
Cote had stacked wood on top of his wood-burning stove to dry it out. The wood caught fire and spread to the rest of the house, in which Cote lived alone, the spokesman said.
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