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Authorities identify Phenix City woman, 73, killed in house fire Wednesday evening

By Tim Chitwood

June 16, 2022 11:28 AM

Russell County authorities have identified the 73-year-old woman killed in a Phenix City house fire Wednesday evening.

Brenda Corbitt was pronounced dead at 8:55 p.m. at her home at 137 Alabama Highway 165, said Russell County Coroner Arthur Sumbry Jr.

“We were told that she was paralyzed and used a wheelchair,” the coroner wrote in a text Thursday to the Ledger-Enquirer.

According to Phenix City police, officers and firefighters were called to the blaze at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.

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