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Man dies in the East Macon house fire early Monday morning

A Macon man is dead after a house fire in East Macon started shortly before 1:30 a.m. Monday.

The fire occurred at 740 Magnolia Drive off Jeffersonville Road near Emery Highway. Etheridge Cecil, 68, was pronounced dead at 2:39 a.m. at a local hospital by deputy coroner Ronnie Miley.

Miley said that there did not seem to be anything suspicious about the fire but that it was under investigation.

Caleb Slinkard
The Telegraph
Caleb Slinkard is the Georgia Editor for McClatchy, running the Macon Telegraph and Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newsrooms. Previously, he led newsrooms for the El Dorado (Ark.) News-Times, the Norman (Okla.) Transcript and the Greenville (Texas) Herald-Banner. He’s a graduate of Texas A&M University-Commerce and has taught journalism classes and practicums at the University of Oklahoma and Mercer University.
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