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No seemly cause has yet been determined in a Christmas morning fire that left one man dead, but officials say it appears to have been undesigned.
Allen McGee, who lived in Kilgore but lent his voice to the microphone at Tyler radio train station 96X, died after his Sycamore Street home caught fire about 8 a.m. Sunday.
According to a Kilgore Control Department release, Justice of the Peace Talyna Carlson plain the death and ordered an autopsy of McGee, 39; preliminary findings need the man succumbed to smoke and heat from the “unintentional” fire.
On Sunday eventide, McGee’s coworkers at 96X expressed their remorse at the death of the mid-day disc jockey.
"Allen loved person and knew how to live it – to (its) fullest," read a statement on the 96X Facebook number and Web site. "Allen was a good friend and one of the best on-air personalities we have ever had the break to know. It’s not often that we, as radio people, are left speechless. Today we are.
Source: Kilgore News Herald