(Shambaugh, Iowa) – The Page County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the man whose body was discovered following a house fire Sept. 18th, in Shambaugh. The State Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy on the victim, who was identified as 63-year-old Jimmy Wayne Blank, of Shambaugh.  The autopsy determined Blank died as a result of smoke from the fire.

The sheriff’s office was dispatched on Sept. 18th to a house fire at 409 Cinder Alley in Shambaugh. After fire departments from Clarinda and Braddyville extinguished the fire, Blank’s body was found during the investigation of the structure.

The State Fire Marshal along with the Clarinda and Braddyville Fire Department investigated the cause of the fire.