Tom Emberton, former Kentucky gubernatorial candidate, dies in house fire after "heroically" saving his wife
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Tom Emberton, once a Republican candidate for Kentucky governor and later chief judge of the state Court of Appeals, died Thursday in a house fire after getting his wife to safety, officials said.
The fire was discovered around 3:30 a.m., Metcalfe County Coroner Larry Wilson said. Emberton helped get his wife away from the home but then he went back inside and didn't make it out, Wilson said. Emberton was in his late 80s.
Kentucky Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. announced Emberton's death during his State of the Judiciary, spokesperson Leigh Anne Hiatt said.
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