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Elderly Holt, Mo., man killed while burning trash

Police and firefighters kept FOX 4 crews off in the distance while they investigated the fatal fire that killed an elderly Holt man.

HOLT, Mo. — A 93-year-old man was killed early Thursday afternoon in a fire outside a home Holt, Mo., in Clinton County.

Clinton County firefighters believe the man was burning his trash at the time when it got away from him.

Firefighters were not releasing the cause of his death. They responded to the property at 6227 S.E. PP Highway at about 1:00 p.m.