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Jun 25, 2008 5:55 am US/Pacific

NASA Engineer Among Dead In Quartz Hill Fire

QUARTZ HILL (AP) ― A NASA engineer has been identified as one of four people found dead after a suspicious fire in an Antelope Valley house.

A NASA spokesman says Joseph Ciganek worked at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as a management systems analyst specializing in electronic test systems Dryden is located on Edwards Air Force Base.

Sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating the deaths.

Coroner's officials say firefighters found Ciganek's body along with those of a woman, a boy who was about 10 years old and a girl who was about 13.

Officials say the woman and the two children were related to each other but their bodies were burned so badly coroner's investigators could not positively identify them.

Investigators are withholding their names pending notification of the woman's next of kin.

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