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Very sad news...that they killed in mobile home fire in Idaho..
Friday, August 3, 2007
Charlie Litchfield/IPT This single-wide trailer, located in the Floating Feather Mobile Home Park in Eagle was consumed by flames early Thursday morning, taking the lives of the three occupants living at the residence. Thursday, August 2, 2007Rescuers say home was engulfed by the time they arrived
By Kendel Murrant
kmurrant@idahopress.com
ADA COUNTY — A fire killed three members of an Eagle family early Thursday after their mobile home burst into flames.
Harold Eugene Waterer, 38, his 8-year-old daughter Star D. Waterer and 19-year-old Heather Bohlin, who was 32 weeks pregnant, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after Eagle firefighters discovered them in their beds. Waterer died at the scene, while Star and Bohlin were transported to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center where they later died.
Hospital staff performed a cesarean section in an attempt to save the baby’s life, but the infant girl was stillborn. According to an Ada County Coroner’s Office report, both Waterer and Bohlin were deaf.
Although emergency responders arrived within four minutes of the 911 call informing officials of the fire, Eagle Deputy Fire Chief Mark Rabdau said the mobile home was already engulfed in heavy flames.
Rabdau said half of the crew set to work on quenching the fire while the other half entered the home in search of victims.
Public safety: Eagle deputy fire chief says smoke alarm did not have strobe to warn hearing impaired people of danger
By Kendel Murrant
kmurrant@idahopress.com
ADA COUNTY — Searchers who entered a fire- and smoke-filled mobile home early Thursday in Eagle first found 8-year-old Star D. Waterer in her bed.
“We brought her out and started to give her CPR,” Eagle Deputy Fire Chief Mark Rabdau said.
The firefighters entered the home again, this time finding Harold Eugene Waterer, 38, and 19-year-old Heather Bohlin, also in bed.
Rabdau said the family had just moved into the mobile home Wednesday.
“They had been moving in over (the last) couple of weeks, but this was their first night they had stayed in the home,” Rabdau said.
The deputy chief said he could not specifically define the relationship between Waterer and Bohlin, but he said they were thought to be a couple.
“We believe them to be a family, whether or not they were a husband and wife, based on the fact they were all there at 2:30 in the morning together,” he said.
Firefighters estimated that the fire began in Star’s room near her bed against the wall. But investigators had not determined what could have caused the fire.
“There was no (electrical) outlet or anything that you could point to” as the source of the fire, Rabdau said.
According to an Ada County Coroner’s Office report, both Waterer and Bohlin were deaf.
Rabdau said that only one smoke detector was found in the mobile home. While many smoke detectors are equipped with strobe lights to warn hearing impaired people of danger, this one did not, he said, because it was most likely an older model.
http://www.idahopress.com/articles/2007/08/03/news/news3.prt
Deaf Newspaper Online
Friday, August 3, 2007
Charlie Litchfield/IPT This single-wide trailer, located in the Floating Feather Mobile Home Park in Eagle was consumed by flames early Thursday morning, taking the lives of the three occupants living at the residence. Thursday, August 2, 2007Rescuers say home was engulfed by the time they arrived
By Kendel Murrant
kmurrant@idahopress.com
ADA COUNTY — A fire killed three members of an Eagle family early Thursday after their mobile home burst into flames.
Harold Eugene Waterer, 38, his 8-year-old daughter Star D. Waterer and 19-year-old Heather Bohlin, who was 32 weeks pregnant, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after Eagle firefighters discovered them in their beds. Waterer died at the scene, while Star and Bohlin were transported to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center where they later died.
Hospital staff performed a cesarean section in an attempt to save the baby’s life, but the infant girl was stillborn. According to an Ada County Coroner’s Office report, both Waterer and Bohlin were deaf.
Although emergency responders arrived within four minutes of the 911 call informing officials of the fire, Eagle Deputy Fire Chief Mark Rabdau said the mobile home was already engulfed in heavy flames.
Rabdau said half of the crew set to work on quenching the fire while the other half entered the home in search of victims.
Public safety: Eagle deputy fire chief says smoke alarm did not have strobe to warn hearing impaired people of danger
By Kendel Murrant
kmurrant@idahopress.com
ADA COUNTY — Searchers who entered a fire- and smoke-filled mobile home early Thursday in Eagle first found 8-year-old Star D. Waterer in her bed.
“We brought her out and started to give her CPR,” Eagle Deputy Fire Chief Mark Rabdau said.
The firefighters entered the home again, this time finding Harold Eugene Waterer, 38, and 19-year-old Heather Bohlin, also in bed.
Rabdau said the family had just moved into the mobile home Wednesday.
“They had been moving in over (the last) couple of weeks, but this was their first night they had stayed in the home,” Rabdau said.
The deputy chief said he could not specifically define the relationship between Waterer and Bohlin, but he said they were thought to be a couple.
“We believe them to be a family, whether or not they were a husband and wife, based on the fact they were all there at 2:30 in the morning together,” he said.
Firefighters estimated that the fire began in Star’s room near her bed against the wall. But investigators had not determined what could have caused the fire.
“There was no (electrical) outlet or anything that you could point to” as the source of the fire, Rabdau said.
According to an Ada County Coroner’s Office report, both Waterer and Bohlin were deaf.
Rabdau said that only one smoke detector was found in the mobile home. While many smoke detectors are equipped with strobe lights to warn hearing impaired people of danger, this one did not, he said, because it was most likely an older model.
http://www.idahopress.com/articles/2007/08/03/news/news3.prt
Deaf Newspaper Online
