PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. — An elderly man died Wednesday morning after a fire on his farm.
According to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, it happened around 7 a.m. on Old Phoenix Road near Highway 44.
Deputies and firefighters got to the scene, Embry Farms, and found a fire burning inside a shipping container.
Firefighters put out the blaze and found the body of 74-year-old Charles Embry – the farm’s owner – in the container.
Sheriff Sills says evidence suggest the fire was the result of an accidental propane explosion and there is nothing to suggest foul play.
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