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Doomed Rest Home Fire Claims Seven In Colusa
Seven elderly residents died in a fast moving Colusa County blaze at Oak Manor rest home. Coroner Howard Moore assigns all deaths to carbon monoxide poisoning and cites a caretaker Ernest Linebaugh and inmate Rosa Rourke as rescuers who could not save the others. Cause under investigation. Linebaugh, awakened by a smoke alert, called firefighters as power failures hampered alarms and extinguishing efforts continue.
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