Police Blotter
POSTED June 15, 2009 | 9:17 PM
DC: Montgomery Co.
Cigarette caused fatal Bethesda town house fire:
A town house fire that killed two people in Bethesda was started by a cigarette, Montgomery County fire officials said. William Purcell, 79, and his wife, Patricia, 64, died at their home on Arizona Circle on Sunday night. William Purcell, in invalid, may have been smoking in bed, said fire department spokesman Pete Piringer. The couple’s daughter, who also lived at the town house, tried to wake her parents but was driven out by the fire, Piringer said.
