SALT LAKE CITY — Two weeks ago, Chee Secody was laughing.

The 94-year-old Korean War veteran had just gotten electricity into his Tonalea, Arizona, home for the first time.

The thing he was most excited about? Power tools.

“I guess that was more important than his refrigerator,” said his daughter Rose Nelson with a laugh and she translated for him in Navajo during a visit by KSL-TV.

But now, the laughter is gone.

A fire tore through Secody’s home earlier this week, burning everything inside.

Many people were worried the fire started because of some electrical problem, but fire investigators say the cause appears to be from his old wood stove.

He first noticed something was wrong when he smelled smoke, went outside, and noticed his roof was burning.

It is an issue that had happene

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