Five victims of Harford house fire identified by the fire marshal

Published January 20, 2007 5:00am ET



The state fire marshal has identified the victims in a two-story house fire in Harford County that killed five of the seven residents, but investigation into the cause of the fire continues.

Deputies from the county sheriff?s office pulled the house?s owner, 72-year-old Jerome Shropshire, from just inside a door on the first floor around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, but he died soon after arriving at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air.

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