(SPRINGFIELD)---The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office reports that the investigation is continuing into the cause of an early morning mobile home fire in Springfield that took the lives of a man and a woman.

Livingston Sheriff Willie Graves says that a preliminary report from the Livingston Parish Coroner's Office indicates that 67-year-old Leroy Breeland of Springfield and 49-year-old Karen L. Newman of Hammond apparently died of smoke inhalation as a result of the blaze.

The fire started sometime after 3 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28, along Blood River Road in Springfield. Sheriff Graves says that firefighters arrived to find a mobile home fully engulfed in flames. He adds that once the fire was under control, the bodies of Breeland and Newman were discovered inside the trailer.

The sheriff says that the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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