Relative Tried to Get Aunt to Move From Home Before Fatal Fire Hit ; Woman, Who Was Nearly Blind, Died From Smoke Inhalation After Fallen Lamp Ignited a Basket of Clothes.

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FAIRBORN -- Three weeks ago, Harold Gayheart attempted to persuade his 89-year-old aunt, who was blind in one eye and had 3 percent vision in the other, to move into a senior citizen's home because he feared for the woman's life.

He was afraid that she'd either start a grease fire while cooking or fall. But Vernice Short, who Gayheart and neighbors described as strongwilled and independent, declined.

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Relative Tried to Get Aunt to Move From Home Before Fatal Fire Hit ; Woman, Who Was Nearly Blind, Died From Smoke Inhalation After Fallen Lamp Ignited a Basket of Clothes.

"She said she just wasn't ready and she didn't want anyone t...

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