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Retired doctor, 86, dies in Hewlett house fire
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Photo credit: Fred Kopf | Firefighters look over what remains after a fire tore through a Hewlett home, taking the life of Adam Rafalowicz, 86, on Thursday. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Photos: Retired doctor killed in Hewlett fire
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A retired doctor neighbors said was forced to work in a Soviet coal mine before coming to America in the 1960s died in a fire in his Hewlett home early Thursday.
Adam Rafalowicz, 86, was found dead in a second-floor bathroom following a "very severe" fire that destroyed his bedroom, also on the second floor, officials said.
Investigators are working on the theory Rafalowicz had been...
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