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'Nice, gentle man': Tributes paid to elderly man killed in Donegal house fire
The fire was discovered by a person calling to the house.
Updated 10am.
THE ELDERLY MAN who died in a house fire in Donegal yesterday afternoon has been described as a ‘nice, gentle man’.
James Campbell was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire at 2.22pm.
The blaze at the house at Glassaghbeg, Cloghan was discovered by a caller who alerted the fire service.
The 80-year-old lived alone and there was no-one else in the house at the time.
Neighbour Mary Hartin told TheJournal.ie, “Everybody in the community got a shock.
He was nice, gentle person. He was harmless.
“His wife died a few years ago and he had no family.”
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