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eventually breached a glass door and
extended into the home's interior.
The residence was a single-story
wood structure with a ground floor
area of 2,100 square feet (195 square
meters). The house had no working
smoke alarms.
The fire caused an estimated
$240,000 in damage to the house,
valued at $300,000, as well as
$150,000 in damage to its contents.

ILLINOIS
Fire started by candle kills two
A late-night house fire that began when
a candle was tipped over claimed the
lives of two residents.
Firefighters were dispatched to
the fire following a phone call from a
third occupant. Newspaper accounts
reported that the caller was in the
driveway when crews arrived and told
them that there were two people inside.
The reports indicated that firefighters
entered the house and found a male
occupant on the first floor who was
pronounced dead at the scene, then
evacuated a female occupant who was
found on the second floor. Ambulance
crews transported her to the hospital,
where she was pronounced dead. Both
victims died of smoke inhalation.
News reports indicated that the fire
was confined to the living room and
extinguished by firefighters within five
minutes.
Investigators learned that the fire
started in the living room, where
several candles were burning while
the third occupant watched television. One of the candles was knocked
onto the floor and ignited a pile of
newspapers.
The house was not equipped with
smoke alarms or a sprinkler system.
The house was a two-story wood
structure. No estimates were available
on dollar losses to the structure, but
damage to house contents was estimated at $50,000.

INDIANA
One dies, two injured in apartment
cooking fire
One person died and two others were
injured in a fire at an apartment

complex that was ignited by cooking oil
left heating on an electric cook stove.
Firefighters were dispatched to the
scene at 12 a.m. following a call to 911
by an apartment occupant. Arriving
crews reported that flames were showing from one corner of the structure,
a nine-unit apartment building, and
were running along another side of
the building. Heavy dark smoke emitted on all sides. Incident command
made a request for additional assistance from two mutual aid companies
shortly after reaching the scene.
Crews made an initial attack using
four handlines, joined by additional
lines as mutual aid crews arrived.
Fifteen minutes into operations,
incident command determined that
conditions called for a defensive effort
and instructed crews to deploy master
streams, including two aerial devices
and two monitor nozzles.

While crews were attacking the fire,
incident command learned that one
resident was unaccounted for, and
he requested that crews on an aerial
ladder cease firefighting and investigate
the victim's unit on the second floor.
The crews entered the victim's unit
through a window and found his body,
which they were asked to protect until
it could be removed by the coroner.
Firefighters achieved extinguishment of the fire at 4 a.m. One truck
was left at the scene to control any
rekindling fires.
Investigators learned that the fire
originated in a unit where occupants
were heating oil in a fryer to prepare a
meal. The occupants reported that the
oil ignited while they were in another
room waiting for it to heat and that the
fire spread rapidly in the kitchen. After
failing to extinguish the fire with two
fire extinguishers, the occupants began

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