State investigators are continuing their probe of a pre-dawn fire Saturday that left two people dead and a third injured outside Hiawassee.
The victims who died in the home have been identified only as a woman in her 60s and a man in his 90s, said Towns County Fire and Rescue Chief Harold Copeland. An elderly man who was in the home was transported to Chatuge Regional Hospital and later released.
Identities of the victims are being withheld pending notification of out-of-state next of kin, Copeland said.
“The alarm went out at 5:17 [Saturday] morning to 88 Leisure Woods Drive in Hiawassee off Owl Creek Road,” Copeland said. “It’s a pretty good way out there.”