You know, he did try to put out the fire initially. That’s why he didn’t head straight out immediately.
Did the lighthouse, or some part of it, fall on him after he ran out?
NOPE
I won’t do a hint yet, but I have some hints in my mind. Keep going, folks, you are doing quite well.
Was he injured before he ran out?
I think I know the answer. Vague trivia memories.
Was metal involved?
YES
YES, although I wish people who knew answers wouldn’t share.
Sorry.
Was there some shrapnel lodging in his body somewhere, including gunpowder, and the heat caused it to ignite, injuring him internally?
NO
Were the other lighthouse keepers aware of his injury? Was it an unusual injury?
Did he die near to the lighthouse (might have been answered already, but I think we’ve just established “outside”)
Did the lighthouse fire consume the building on the same day it started? On the same day he died?
Did one of the other people present do something to cause the fatal injury?
Did they fail to do something that we could reasonably assume would have prevented it?
yeppers
Yeppers
Was this a real event? A fictional one?
If real, is it chiefly remembered through a creative work, such as a song or story about the event?
There is a plaque commemorating Henry, but it really is mainly just due to him being a good guy and the unusual way he died.
Did something burn him?
Fall on him?
Somehow get sent shooting across the room and hit him?
Did he fall?
Did he die rescuing or attempting to rescue someone in danger?
Maybe a ship that got in trouble because of the lack of a lighthouse?
Did he die when he returned to the ruins of the lighthouse?
NO to everything here.
It was established upthread that it started at the kitchen stove. Would it help to go into greater detail about exactly what happened there?
Was something being cooked at the time?
Here is how the fire went as far as they could figure out later:
It started in the kitchen, exited through a cracked stove-pipe and went into the lantern room, then went out the roof.