State fire official: Perry fire was intentionally setīrian Peterman, fire and explosion investigations assistant bureau chief for the State Fire Marshal’s Office, said Tuesday the state has ruled that the fire at 4855 Fourth St. “… I just feel so bad because he was such a good, good friend.”

“I can’t believe this happened to him,” Mull said Tuesday during a phone interview with The Canton Repository. McGuire's neighbors told her that her 64-year-old friend had died in a fire at the home that began around 10 a.m. McGuire’s car was parked in the driveway. NW home on Monday afternoon, she found the windows and doors of his two-level brick house boarded with plywood. When Mull arrived at McGuire’s Fourth St. He also didn’t send his usual morning text message that told her when he woke up. And all her calls were going to his voicemail. Her friend of more than 20 years was supposed to pick her up from work Monday afternoon, but he never responded to her text messages. Kia Mull spent more than $100 on a Lyft ride from Akron to check on her friend William “Bill” McGuire in Perry Township.

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