86-year-old man killed in house fire in Springville identified

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The antheral who was killed successful a location occurrence successful Springville has been identified arsenic 86-year-old William M. Whisman.

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The flames broke retired astatine a location connected Avenue 176 astir 5:30 americium Monday.

Mark Seitz, who lives connected the aforesaid road, said that Whisman was a bully antheral who enjoyed his clip outdoors, religion and his pets.

Investigators accidental by the clip firefighters arrived, astatine slightest fractional of the location was engulfed successful flames, making it hard to retrieve immoderate remains.

Firefighters searched done the location aggregate times and during the last search, recovered Whisman's assemblage and what is believed to beryllium carnal remains.

The origin of the occurrence is inactive nether investigation.