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Woman killed, husband badly hurt in central Indiana fire

SPICELAND, Ind. — Authorities say a fire in a small central Indiana town has killed a woman and badly hurt her husband.

Firefighters were called about 4 a.m. Thursday to an old barn that had been converted into a home in the Henry County town of Spiceland.

Neighbors tell WISH-TV that neighbors stopped the woman’s husband from going back inside the burning home to try and rescue her. The man was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital with severe burns.

Spiceland fire chief Scott Teague says firefighters were hampered by a frozen fire hydrant and spent at least five minutes running hoses to another hydrant several hundred feet away.

A cause wasn’t immediately determined for the fire in the 900-person town about 30 miles east of Indianapolis.

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