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Marysville Firefighter Dies in a Plane Crash

Theodore Mathews 48, of Oak Harbor died about 5:45 a.m. Saturday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Mr. Mathews' single-engine plane crashed and caught fire south of Oak Harbor Friday afternoon.

A passenger, tentatively identified as his wife, Karen Ann Mathews, 43, died at the scene, Smith said.

Following the 4 p.m. crash Friday, Mathews was taken to Harborview's trauma center with serious burns, and died Saturday.

The couple reportedly had been preparing to land their 1942 fabric-covered Stinson aircraft on a private grass airstrip near their home in the Hastie Lake area.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the Island County Sheriff's Office said.