When flames from a small fire on a kitchen stove got too close to a propane tank Thursday night, the resulting explosion demolished a Crandall, Ga., house and killed the woman inside.
Police believe 34-year-old Lisa Willis was cooking and left the stove unattended just before the fire started.
“It’s a tragic accident, it really is,” said Murray County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Ray Sitton.
Willis was the daughter of the home’s owner, James Beavers, Sitton said.
The 100-pound propane tank that caused the explosion was stored outside the house and hadn’t been used in several years, Sitton said.