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4/11/2014
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
The use of accelerants have been ruled out in a house fire that killed a disabled Mt. Sterling man Feb. 2.
Jeremy Callahan, 30, was killed in the fire when he was unable to get out of the home on E Street because he was wheelchair-bound.
Kentucky State Police fire investigator Shane Barnes said this week that samples taken from the room in which Callahan was sleeping and the carport at the home showed no signs of accelerants.
The samples were examined at the state crime lab in Frankfort, which recently announced its findings.
For now the KSP is listing the cause as “undetermined.”
The fire occurred at 308 E St. in Oldfield subdivision during the early morning hours. Matthew Willoughby, a resident of the home, attempted to get his friend out, but was unable to do so. Callahan had been sleeping on a couch.
Willoughby was injured during his escape.
Callahan had been paralyzed since he was 14 when he was a passenger in a vehicle that wrecked in 1998.
Callahan was born with a club foot and wore a cast on his foot since then. He had underwent numerous surgeries.
The family at the residence was in the process of moving and had a couch, mattress, lawn mower and other items in the carport, authorities said.
An SUV parked in the driveway was destroyed.
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