Autopsies of 34 who died in Conception boat fire offer grim new details

LOS ANGELES – Within days of the dive boat Conception bursting into flames off the Channel Islands and killing 34 people, the Santa Barbara County coroner declared that the deaths were the result of smoke inhalation and that all died below deck. But documents from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s coroner’s operation released eight months after the disaster raise new questions about those final …