The woman who died in a Penobscot County fire last month has been identified by officials.
Jean Fogg, 82, has been identified as the victim of the March 19 house fire on Route 168 in Winn, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said in a news release Wednesday.
The Lincoln Fire Department responded to the fire around 1:30 a.m. March 19 and found that five occupants had escaped the home but reported that one woman was unaccounted for, Moss said.
Investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office located her body in the debris at about 9:30 a.m., Moss said.
The other occupants of the home suffered smoke inhalation and were treated at, and later released from, a hospital in Lincoln, Moss said.
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