(heartbreaking)12/28/11 CHRISTMAS FIRE KILLS LADY's PARENTS & 3 CHILDREN: "Sometime between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., a friend staying in the home put fireplace ashes in a bag and left it either in or outside a mudroom and trash enclosure attached to the rear of the house, said Barry Callahan Stamford’s fire marshal. The fire was reported just after 4:40 a.m “The fire entered the house quickly and spread throughout the first floor and up two interior vertical openings, trapping the occupants on the upper floors,” Callahan said. ...“We are devastated, just like everybody else is devastated,” Keatley said Tuesday Badger, a New York advertising executive who owned the home, and her male acquaintance escaped. Her parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, who were visiting for the holidays, were killed, as were her three daughters — 10- year-old Lily and 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah The home’s second floor was being renovated and Badger was awaiting a final inspection before she could get a final certificate of approval, said Ernie Ogera, director of operations for the city of Stamford..." http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/9668558-418/old-fireplace-embers-caused-conn-fire-that-left-5-dead.html

12/28/11 CHRISTMAS FIRE KILLS LADY's PARENTS & 3 CHILDREN: "Sometime between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., a friend staying in the home put fireplace ashes in a bag and left it either in or outside a mudroom and trash enclosure attached to the rear of the house, said Barry Callahan Stamford’s fire marshal. The fire was reported just after 4:40 a.m “The fire entered the house quickly and spread throughout the first floor and up two interior vertical openings, trapping the occupants on the upper floors,” Callahan said.
...“We are devastated, just like everybody else is devastated,” Keatley said Tuesday Badger, a New York advertising executive who owned the home, and her male acquaintance escaped. Her parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, who were visiting for the holidays, were killed, as were her three daughters — 10- year-old Lily and 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah The home’s second floor was being renovated and Badger was awaiting a final inspection before she could get a final certificate of approval, said Ernie Ogera, director of operations for the city of Stamford..."
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