News Channel 8 photo by JIM FARQUHAR
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue units are on scene of a heavily involved car fire in the woods. After the crew extinguished the fire, the body of a deceased was found inside.
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Published: August 23, 2008
Tampa - Sheriff's detectives are investigating the death of person found inside a burning vehicle this morning in a field off of Taylor Road.
Detectives had not determined the name or gender of the body in the sports utility vehicle, and an autopsy was planned, Hillsborough sheriff's spokesman J.D.Callaway said.
The cause of the fire was not known.
Hillsborough fire rescue units were called to a reported brush fire at about 2:10 a.m. in an area off Taylor and Skewlee roads. Firefighters discovered the vehicle fully engulfed in flames near the woods, then the body inside.
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