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EVERGREEN, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office has released its preliminary findings in a deadly Evergreen fire that left two University of Alabama students dead.
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According to the office, they believe the fire that killed 19-year-old Walter Hensley and 21-year-old McNeil Mostellar, both of Mobile, was accidental and was caused by discarded fireworks.
Officials said the fireworks “retained enough heat to ignite combustible materials on the ATV they were carried on.”
It was at that point that the fire spread from the ATV to the home…