12-16-14 town of lamartine man dies in homemade meat smoker explosion

A Fond du Lac County man was killed when a homemade meat smoker exploded over the weekend.   Sheriff’s sergeant Jeff Bonack says town of Lamartine resident 55 year old Richard Zabel was attempting to relight an LP gas burner in a homemade smoker when the explosion occurred.  Bonack says when Zabel tried to relight the burner the smoker blew open and struck him in the head.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Bonack says it is a tragic freak accident.  “It was truly horrible, I mean its a tragedy,”  Bonack told WFDL news.  “The guy is trying to mind his own business, doing a little smoking of some turkeys and some chickens and its too bad something like that happened.”  The accident remains under investigation by the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office and County Medical Examiner.

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