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Retired doctor, 86, dies in Hewlett house fire

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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