Smoke detector failure leaves 2 Fort Worth kids burned Says Texas injury lawyer
Dallas injury attorney says-3 kids plus 1 grandpa injured with smoke alarm failure.
Dallas, TX (AmericanInjuryNews.com)–The Dallas Morning News reported earlier today a fire trapped two toddlers and their 81 year old grandfather in a home on the 2600 block of Chenault Street early Sunday morning. The 9 year-old brother, of the trapped 1 year-old boy and 3 year-old girl, called 911 before 1 a.m. on Sunday alerting the police and fire rescue departments his siblings and grandfather were trapped inside the burning home.
Fort Worth firefighters responded to the blaze and rescued the two children from the bedroom where the fire was located and transported them to Parkland Memorial Hospital. The toddlers are currently being treated for second and third degree burns. The Fort Worth Fire Department rescued the trapped 81 year-old grandfather and transported him to Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital where doctors and nurses treated him for smoke inhalation injuries.
The 9 year-old boy, who managed to escaped the blaze and call 911, was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center and treated for smoke inhalation injuries by the emergency medical team. The children’s mother and uncle were not home, at the time of the fire. Fort Worth, Texas fire department officials are currently reporting a smoke detector in the home was not working.
According to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/, a division of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), fire kills 3,700 consumers and injures more than 20,000 people each year in the United States. A functioning smoke alarm is critical for early detection of a fire in your home. Smoke and deadly gases produced, by the fire, spread faster and farther than heat. Most children and adults die from smoke inhalation and not from burns. The deadliest residential fires typically happen at night when families are sleeping. According to FireSafety.gov http://www.firesafety.gov/, two-thirds of home fire deaths happen in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. Properly installing and maintaining smoke alarms is considered one of the best ways to warn and protect your family of a potentially deadly fire. Fire alarms can reduce the risk of dying from a fire in your home by almost half estimates the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) www.cdc.gov, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) www.cpsc.gov and the USFA.
AmericanInjuryNews.com by Dallas Injury Lawyer Amy K. Witherite
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