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Vienna man dead after kitchen fire
Story from the Youngstown Vindicator on 2/10/2010.

VIENNA — A 54-year-old man died after a fire broke out at a house trailer Wednesday afternoon, said a spokesman from the Ohio State Fire Marshal’s office.

The Trumbull County 911 dispatch center said the fire was at 43 North Outer Drive. It began around 5:30 p.m.

The victim is not being identified, pending a coroner’s investigation, Shane Cartmill, spokesman for the fire marshal, said Wednesday night.

The man died after being taken to St. Joseph Health Center in Warren, the dispatch center said.

Cartmill said the fire started in the kitchen, but no cause has been determined yet.

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Identify revealed in Vienna man who died in mobile home fire
Story from the Youngstown Vindicator on 2/11/2010.

VIENNA — The Ohio State Fire Marshal’s Office is reporting the identity of the man who died in a Wednesday mobile home fire here as Russell Saylor, 53.

Saylor, of 43 North Outer Drive in the Four Seasons Mobile Home Park off state Route 193 near the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, was rescued from his home and taken to St. Joseph Health Center in Warren, where he died. The fire was reported at about 5:30 p.m.

Shane Cartmill, public information officer with the state fire marshal, said the fire started in the kitchen, but the cause is still under investigation.

Smoke detectors were in the home, but they did not activate, Cartmill added.

An autopsy was scheduled for later today.