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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) One person is dead after a fire occurred at a house in West Deer Township in Allegheny County. The fire happened on Wednesday morning at a home on Trump Road in West Deer. Steve Imbarlina, an assistant chief with Allegheny County Emergency Services, confirmed that one person was found dead by firefighters. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office identified the man killed in the flames in as seventy-one-year-old Van Laskey of West Deer. The cause of his death was not immediately known and the Allegheny County Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.