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Elderly man killed in East Orange, NJ house fire
EAST ORANGE — An elderly man was killed in a house fire in East Orange Monday morning.
Albert Prince, 76, was killed in the pre-dawn hours when a fire spread through his three-story single-family home on Hawthorne Avenue, where he lived alone, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II.
The cause and origin of the fire are still under investigation.
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