Dryer Lint Sparks Fatal Fire
Man Dies In Second Fire
POSTED: 7:15 am EDT September 13, 2008
UPDATED: 5:12 pm EDT September 14, 2008
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LEXINGTON, Mass. -- A 48-year-old mother who helped her two daughters escape a blaze in their Lexington home is among two people killed in separate fires Saturday.
VIDEO: Mother Killed After Daughters Escape Blaze Worcester fire officials said one person also died in a blaze in a vacant house early Saturday on Main Street.The state fire marshal said Gena Brown died in a fire at her single-family Lexington house. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said the fire on Paul Revere Road started when lint buildup in a dryer smoldered, then ignited around 5 a.m. He said the fire went out a pipe, then spread up the outside of the house onto the first floor. Lexington Fire Chief William Middlemiss said Brown died after yelling to her two daughters, ages 10 and 12, to get out. The girls scrambled out a window and across a rooftop before jumping off the garage roof.Brown was an ultrasound technician at Newton Wellesley Hospital.The Worcester fire started at about 1 a.m. and the house was engulfed when firefighters arrived. The cause is under investigation.Homeless people had used the building as shelter in the past, fire officials in Worcester said. The victim of that fire has not been identified.
VIDEO: Mother Killed After Daughters Escape Blaze Worcester fire officials said one person also died in a blaze in a vacant house early Saturday on Main Street.The state fire marshal said Gena Brown died in a fire at her single-family Lexington house. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said the fire on Paul Revere Road started when lint buildup in a dryer smoldered, then ignited around 5 a.m. He said the fire went out a pipe, then spread up the outside of the house onto the first floor. Lexington Fire Chief William Middlemiss said Brown died after yelling to her two daughters, ages 10 and 12, to get out. The girls scrambled out a window and across a rooftop before jumping off the garage roof.Brown was an ultrasound technician at Newton Wellesley Hospital.The Worcester fire started at about 1 a.m. and the house was engulfed when firefighters arrived. The cause is under investigation.Homeless people had used the building as shelter in the past, fire officials in Worcester said. The victim of that fire has not been identified.Copyright 2009 by TheBostonChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
