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The Nation's news media is reporting the following residential fire (non-arson) fatalities:
January 4, 2010
- 5 dead – Occurred Friday, 1/1 – Palm Springs, CA (Palm Springs, CA): A 32 year-old man, a 30-year-old woman and her three children – a six-year-old girl, a seven-year-old boy, and an 11-year-old girl, were willed in a manufactured home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- 5 dead – Occurred Friday, 1/1- Braymer, MO (Kansas City, MO): A 24-year-old man, a 23-year-old woman, and three children – two 11-year-old boys and one four-month-old girl – were killed in a home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but it is believed that the basement fireplace caused the fire, which is where the victims were found.
- 3 dead – Occurred Friday, 1/1 – Honea Path, SC (Greenville, SC/ Asheville, NC): A 43-year-old man, his 46-year-old wife, and their 19-year old daughter were killed in a manufactured home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but officials believe it stared in the kitchen. No working smoke alarms were found in the home, but officials said the trailer was so badly burned that smoke alarms may have been destroyed.
- 2 dead – Occurred Monday 1/4 – Chicago, IL (Chicago, IL): A 77-year-old woman and her 55-year-old son, who was handicapped, were killed in a two-unit flat. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials believe the fire was caused by a space heater. The home did have a working smoke alarm, which sounded.
- 1 dead – Occurred Monday 1/4 – Belle Chase, LA (New Orleans, LA): A 55-year-old man, who was handicapped, died in a manufactured home fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials believe the fire was caused by a space heater.
- 1 dead – Occurred Saturday, 1/2 – Greenwood, SC (Greenville, SC/ Asheville, NC): A woman and her cat were killed in an apartment fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- 1 dead – Occurred Saturday, 1/2 – Sumter, SC (Columbia, SC): A 29-year-old man was killed in a home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- 1 dead – Occurred Saturday, 1/2 – Anaheim, CA (Los Angeles, CA): A person was killed in a retirement community complex fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- 1 dead – Occurred Saturday 1/2 – Burnt Prairie, IL (Chicago, IL): A 92-year-old man was killed in a home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- 1 dead – Occurred Friday 1/1 – Manville, NJ (New York, NY): A 58-year-old man was killed in a home fire. Officials believe the fire was caused by a deep fryer that was being used on top of a gas-burning stove.
- 1 dead – Occurred Thursday, 12/31 – Shreveport, LA (Shreveport, LA): A 24-year-old man was killed in a home fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (Note: This was Shreveport’s first fire fatality in 2009).
- 1 dead – Occurred Tuesday, 12/28 – South Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles, CA): A 49-year-old woman was killed in a home fire. Officials said the fire was caused due to an improper heater in the woman’s bedroom, which had charcoal briquettes. The charcoal likely introduced deadly carbon-monoxide fumes. There were no working smoke alarms or carbon-monoxide detectors in the home.
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