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3rd person's remains inside burned NC funeral home

The Associated Press

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SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a third person's remains are trapped inside the crumbling structure of a Salisbury funeral home destroyed by a 4-alarm fire.


Authorities were unable to get to an urn containing the ashes of Korean War veteran Charles Benson. His funeral had been planned for Sunday, but relatives delayed the service until Benson's urn could be recovered.

Lyerly Funeral Home was engulfed in flames Friday when authorities think a fire started in the basement near a furnace. No one was hurt, but the bodies of two women awaiting funerals were trapped inside, in their caskets.

All employees got out of the building safely, and the women's funerals went on as planned Saturday. Fire officials said they would bring in equipment on Monday to stabilize the building.

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