No cause found in double fatal fire in Delaware
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<p>Top Flight, the headliner, performs nationally but hails from Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Top Flight threw vocal jabs at people walking by as well as those in attendance at Wired Beans. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Few were safe from from Craig McLaren's jabs, including his wife, who was in attendance, and his 19-year-old son, who was not. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Lamont Maxx's routine featured bits on politics and riffs on things seen along Germantown Avenue and North Philly in general. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Ken Jones performed as the first of two openers Tuesday at the Wired Beans Cafe. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Lamont Maxx performs at the Wired Beans Cafe comedy night. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Host and comedian Craig McLaren starts the show at the Wired Beans Cafe on Chelten Avenue in Germantown. He hopes to promote hidden talent in Philly through the weekly event. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Investigators stand among the rubble of the the W. 5th Street house that partially-collapsed during a fire on December 13. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>The fire broke out around 8:30 p.m. on December 13. Fire investigators discovered a body beneath the rubble while investigating the cause on December 17. (John Jankowksi/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Investigators on the scene after the fire-damaged building which partially collapsed during the fire has been torn down. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Police are trying to identify the man whose body they found beneath the rubble of this burned out home on W. 5th Street in Wilmington. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)</p>
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<p>Fire investigators found a body buried the beneath the rubble after extinguishing this fire on W. 5th Street in Wilmington. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)</p>
Fire investigators have closed their investigation into a double fatal fire in December without determining what sparked the deadly blaze.
Fire broke out at a vacant building on W. 5th Street in Wilmington around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 13. The fire caused much of the building to crumble. As fire investigators were conducting their examination a few days later, they discovered the body of a man who had been buried beneath the rubble; that happened Dec. 17th.
Later that week, investigators discovered a second body, this time a woman. The body was found at the Cherry Island landfill where debris from the fire was being dumped.
Now, more than two months after the fire that claimed two lives, Wilmington Fire Marshal Deputy Chief William McKim says investigators have exhausted all leads, “which provided no conclusive evidence as to how the fire started.”
The case is now officially listed as closed with the cause undetermined.
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