A discarded cigarette or the burn barrel that a Lynchburg man kept on the front porch of his Cabell Street home sparked the blaze that killed James Edward Bayes last week.

One or both ignited a sofa sitting on the front porch of Bayes’ home, Lynchburg Fire Marshal Greg Wormser said Tuesday. The sofa caught the front of the house on fire, quickly burning through the old wood and trapping Bayes inside.

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