	ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS A 
SELF EMPLOYED INVESTOR WHO LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH A ROOM-MATE. THE ROOM-MATE LEFT THE APARTMENT AT ABOUT 3:00 PM, IN THE AFTERNOON, HE ETURNED AT ABOUT 8:30 PM, TO FIND THE THEIR RESIDENCE FILLED WITH SMOKE. ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO REMOVE THE DECEASED FROM HIS BEDROOM, HOWEVER THE SMOKE WAS TOO INTENSE . FIRE RESCUE PERSONNEL LOCATED HIM , MOVED HIM TO THE FRONT LAWN WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. 
	POLICE AND FIRE FIGHTING INVESTIGATORS FOUND WHAT THEY BELIEVED 
TO BE THE SOURCE OF THE FIRE WHEN THEY DISCOVERED AN 
ELECTRICAL EXENTION CORD ON TOP OF THE BED THAT WAS ATTACHED TO A HEATING PAD. THE CORD HAD EVIDENCE OF SHORT  CIRCUITS.   