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UPDATED 4:21 p.m. -- Family who died in fatal trailer fire identified | News Updates | Idaho Statesman
Ada County Coroner's have identified the Eagle family who died in an early-morning trailer fire as 38-year-old Harold Eugene Waterer, his 9-year-old daughter Star D. Waterer, and 19-year-old girlfriend Heather A. Bohlin.
Eagle Fire Department investigators say they may never know exactly what caused the trailer fire which killed three people at the Floating Feather trailer park.
All three people were found on the floor in the bedroom of the trailer and appeared to have all been overcome by smoke shortly after 2:40 a.m. this morning, Eagle Fire Chief Dan Friend said this morning.
Fire officials have finished their investigation and will likely rule that the cause of the fire is undetermined, Friend said.
The fire occurred on the first night in the home the family spent in their home, neighbors said this morning.
Investigators know where the fire started — between the bed and a closet in the 9-year-old's front bedroom — but not by what. There is no evidence of a heating or electrical malfunction and there is no evidence of smoking, Friend said.
Both Harold Waterer and Heather Bohlin were deaf, according to coroner's reports. Firefighters found smoke detectors in the trailer, but they were not special detectors made for people with hearing impairment, according to reports.
Family friend Mike Wray said this morning the family had just moved to the area from the Riverside, Calif. area a few months ago and had stayed with other deaf families in the Boise area. They just moved into the trailer Wednesday night, Wray said.
The fire was called into Ada County Dispatchers shortly after 2:30 a.m. by drivers who first saw smoke in the area, followed by a 911 call that a residence in the Floating Feather Mobile Home park was on fire.
Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting out of the front of the trailer. Neighbors told firefighters that a family of three was inside, so firefighters knocked down the flames and went in to find all three people in the back bedroom on the floor, Friend said.
That room was not on fire when they family was found but was in heavy smoke, according to reports.
Firefighters got the residents out of the home and began CPR. Bohlin and the 9-year-old girl were taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead a short time later, Friend said. Doctors at Saint Al's did an emergency cesarean secction in an attempt to save the baby girl, but she was stillborn.
Investigators are currently trying to determine what caused the fire. There are about 100 other trailers in the park but none of those other residences were damaged in the fire.
At least two other hearing-impaired families live in the trailer park and many of those people have been joined by other members of the Boise deaf community at the scene, where they have spent several hours talking and signing among themselves and watching fire inspectors search the home.
Ada County Coroner's have identified the Eagle family who died in an early-morning trailer fire as 38-year-old Harold Eugene Waterer, his 9-year-old daughter Star D. Waterer, and 19-year-old girlfriend Heather A. Bohlin.
Eagle Fire Department investigators say they may never know exactly what caused the trailer fire which killed three people at the Floating Feather trailer park.
All three people were found on the floor in the bedroom of the trailer and appeared to have all been overcome by smoke shortly after 2:40 a.m. this morning, Eagle Fire Chief Dan Friend said this morning.
Fire officials have finished their investigation and will likely rule that the cause of the fire is undetermined, Friend said.
The fire occurred on the first night in the home the family spent in their home, neighbors said this morning.
Investigators know where the fire started — between the bed and a closet in the 9-year-old's front bedroom — but not by what. There is no evidence of a heating or electrical malfunction and there is no evidence of smoking, Friend said.
Both Harold Waterer and Heather Bohlin were deaf, according to coroner's reports. Firefighters found smoke detectors in the trailer, but they were not special detectors made for people with hearing impairment, according to reports.
Family friend Mike Wray said this morning the family had just moved to the area from the Riverside, Calif. area a few months ago and had stayed with other deaf families in the Boise area. They just moved into the trailer Wednesday night, Wray said.
The fire was called into Ada County Dispatchers shortly after 2:30 a.m. by drivers who first saw smoke in the area, followed by a 911 call that a residence in the Floating Feather Mobile Home park was on fire.
Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting out of the front of the trailer. Neighbors told firefighters that a family of three was inside, so firefighters knocked down the flames and went in to find all three people in the back bedroom on the floor, Friend said.
That room was not on fire when they family was found but was in heavy smoke, according to reports.
Firefighters got the residents out of the home and began CPR. Bohlin and the 9-year-old girl were taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead a short time later, Friend said. Doctors at Saint Al's did an emergency cesarean secction in an attempt to save the baby girl, but she was stillborn.
Investigators are currently trying to determine what caused the fire. There are about 100 other trailers in the park but none of those other residences were damaged in the fire.
At least two other hearing-impaired families live in the trailer park and many of those people have been joined by other members of the Boise deaf community at the scene, where they have spent several hours talking and signing among themselves and watching fire inspectors search the home.