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Cops: Fatal W. Babylon fire likely started by someone cooking

Firefighters combing Sunday night through a West Babylon

Firefighters combing Sunday night through a West Babylon apartment building that caught fire earlier in the day found a body inside, but authorities would not identify the victim. Videojournalist: Paul Mazza (March 3, 2013) (March 3, 2013 9:17 PM)

The fire that killed a woman in a West Babylon apartment building Sunday likely started when oil ignited from chicken wings cooking in another apartment, Suffolk County police said.

Homicide chief Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said Monday investigators believe the fire from the cooking oil came from another apartment in the two-story structure on Little East Neck Road, which also houses the West Babylon...

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