By Associated Press - Thursday, February 2, 2017

VERMILLION, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say an 86-year-old man was killed during a fire in his northeastern Kansas home.

WIBW-TV (https://bit.ly/2l238KT ) reports that Donald Jacobson died at the scene of the blaze early Thursday near tiny Vermillion.

Jacobson’s son managed to escape unharmed.



WIBW reports that state fire investigators determined the fire’s cause to be accidental.

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Information from: WIBW-TV.

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