Residential fire fatalities have doubled in Prince George’s County since last year. The department hopes weekend fire safety checks will help.
in the Lanham area. One of those cases includes Joyce Brown, 83, and Eunice Chisley, 79, who died in late January at a single-family home that was converted into an assisted-living facility.
In a two-story split foyer home fire in Lanham in February, a cigarette lighter that accidentally lit bedding materials started a blaze, Doubleday said. Two men in the home tried to extinguish it, but the fire got out of control. One of the men had called for the other man inside for help, who came downstairs to assist. The man who helped try to extinguish the fire died along with his wife, Doubleday said. The other man was able to escape.according to family.
“It’s taken a big toll on him because that was the person he leaned on,” Dixon said of her aunt Aurelia Cannon-Bey, her father’s sister. “He’s devastated from all of this.”“Never try to go back to get anything, just leave out of the house. Try to get out as quick as you can. You think you have time, but fires, they are quick and they are very devastating,” Dixon, who has also experienced a house fire, added.
“It saddens me that we’re having these fires in the community and in the state. For me, these are failures,” Geraci said. “We either failed to get the information to these people, or they failed to receive it.”
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