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The Beverly rooming house fire took place at the Elliott Chambers, a low-rent rooming house in Beverly, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1984. Prosecutors alleged that the fire was set by a man whose ex-girlfriend dated someone who lived in the building, eventually convicting James Carver of second-degree murder and arson.
The victims who died in the wind-driven fires that have decimated the Los Angeles area in January include a man who was found holding a garden hose as well as an 82-year-old man who died in his ...
Miod’s remains were found there after the fire. He was holding his kitten, the Malibu Times reported . “He’d been through so many of these fires and made it through unscathed.
Karen Myles, 66, walked out of her Altadena, California home in the middle of the night in her pajamas, confronted by a forest of red and orange flaming trees and live wires from tumbled electric ...
Fire Chief Yoho said that counseling and support will also be made available for his firefighters, especially some of the younger ones involved in recovering the victims. [2] Local news media reported that the beach house was torn down the week of November 19. By Thanksgiving Day, all that was left at the scene was an empty, sand-filled lot. [17]
The three employees who were present and 21 residents survived. About 2/3 of the survivors were invalids and some had suffered burns and smoke inhalation. [3]Thirty-five of the home's thirty-six mental patients died during the blaze and many were so burned that identification was done based on the bed registration of the bed they were found in. [3] Before any bodies were removed in the ...
After Ettienne became aware of the fire, she raced upstairs to save Jacobs who was sleeping, prosecutors said. But the garage quickly became engulfed in flames and the pair was unable to escape.
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.