WATERBORO (AP) — The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office says a Waterboro woman died in an early morning house fire.
Fire investigators say 50- year- old Mary Gilman was found in the burned-out Cape Cod house on Paradise Lane in the Lake Arrowhead section of Waterboro.
A man who stayed at the house Saturday night suffered burns and smoke inhalation. Shawn Girard, 46, of Old Orchard Beach is being treated at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
Investigators say the fire likely started near a wood stove in a first-floor porch and rapidly spread throughout the house.
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