Elderly Dodge County man dead after house fire
PLAINFIELD, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An elderly Dodge County man is dead after a fire at his home.
It happened on Saturday around 2:00 a.m at a Welcome Friend Church Road home in Plainfield. Dodge County Coroner Joe Smith says 88 year-old Washington Battle woke up, went to cook something in his kitchen, then went back to sleep.
Battle was airlifted from Dodge County Hospital to a burn center in Augusta where he died from smoke inhalation.
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