One person has died and another taken to a hospital after a fire broke out around eight o’clock Wednesday morning in the Thomas Campbell Apartments in the 800 block of Beech Street in South Strabane Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office says 68-year-old Kimberly Haines was found in her apartment on the fourth floor where the fire broke out. South Strabane Fire Chief Jordan Cramer tells WJPA that the fire is under investigation, but their initial thoughts are that Haines may have started the fire by smoking. This fire is reminiscent of another fatal fire in the building three years ago. Cramer says he took over the chief’s position a few months after that fire and his department worked closely with Thomas Campbell officials to upgrade its safety features, and since, then many upgrades have been made, like the installation of a state of the art fire alarm system and a state of the art sprinkler system. Cramer says if those safety features had not been in place, Wednesday’s fire could have been much worse.