Downham Market house fire most likely caused by cigarette

Published:
12:36 PM January 29, 2021
  
Emergency services were called to the scene of a house fire in Downham Market. Picture: Sarah Hussain
- Credit: Archant
A fire at a house in which a 53-year-old woman died was probably caused by a lit cigarette being dropped onto a chair, an inquest heard.
Samantha Ford died after a blaze broke out inside her semi-detached house at Retreat Estate in Downham Market on July 29 last year.
Emergency services at the scene of the house fire in Downham Market. 
- Credit: Ian Burt
An inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court in Norwich on Friday heard that Mrs Ford was a smoker and that at the time of her death had a high level of alcohol in her system which may have caused her to be confused in the fire.

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