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about the fire. She called 911, and they left the house. The home, valued at $176,000, and its contents, valued at $30,000, sustained a combined loss of $135,000. Two nearby sheds also sustained losses estimated at $3,500. There were no injuries. slept, they saw the living and dining area on fire. After breaking their son’s window, they heard him whimpering and coughing in the smoke-filled bedroom and begged him to come to the window. His mother told investigators that the window was too high for her climb through herself. His father broke the glass in the sliding doors of the living area, but the intense fire and smoke made it impossible for him to go back in. The fire department received the call at 7:38 a.m. and arrived seven minutes later to find the home involved in flames. The parents told the emergen- Kitchen fire kills two-year-old ARIZONA—A two-year-old boy died of smoke inhalation and burns in a fire that began in the kitchen of his singlefamily house. His parents managed to escape by climbing out a bedroom window and then tried unsuccessfully to rescue their son. The double-wide manufactured home, produced in the early 1980s, had a living room, dining room, and kitchen in the center, with a master bedroom at one end and two other bedrooms at the opposite end. The boy’s mother said that smoke alarms were present and that she had changed the batteries just weeks earlier. When she tested the alarm and found that they did not function, she told the management company. There were no sprinklers. The mother had arrived home late in the evening and stayed up to watch television. Her husband woke her at about 3:30 a.m. and made her dinner, and she then fell asleep on the living room couch. She woke around 5 a.m. to get her nine-year-old daughter up early to finish some school work. The girl woke her father to say good-by before leaving for school about an hour and a half later, and her mother went back to sleep in the master bedroom with her husband. The little boy was also asleep in his bedroom with the door closed. The father awoke to a crashing sound and saw smoke coming from the edges of the closed master bedroom door and filling the room. When he touched the doorknob, he found it hot to the touch, so he and his wife left the home through a bedroom window. As they went around the house to the end where their son SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 NFPA JOURNAL JULY/AUGUST 2012 NFPA JOURNAL 23 http://www.amerex-fire.com http://www.badgerfire.com http://www.buckeyef.com http://www.kidde.com http://www.halotron.com http://www.halotron.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NFPA Journal - September/October 2012

NFPA Journal - September/October 2012
Contents
First Word
Mail Call
In a Flash
Perspectives
Firewatch
Research
Heads Up
Structural Ops
In Compliance
Buzzwords
Outreach
Electrical Safety
Wildfire Watch
Lessons of Comayagua
After Waldo Canyon
Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires in 2011
Fire Loss in the United States in 2011
Section Spotlight
Research + Analysis
What’s Hot
Looking Back

NFPA Journal - September/October 2012