Published: Monday, April 2, 2007
Child, space heater suspected as cause of 2 fires in Youngstown
YOUNGSTOWN — City firefighters battled two house fires Sunday, one started by a child and the other likely caused by a space heater in a vacant house.
Fire officials said a blaze at 11:30 a.m. at 135 N. Hartford Ave. was started by a young girl in a second-floor bedroom. Firefighters were able to confine the flames to that one room and damage was estimated at $7,500. Fire officials said Tabranda Thomas and her four children, ages 12, 8, 7 and 22 months, were able to get out of the house on their own and weren't injured.
Officials said a fire at 2 p.m. in a second-floor bedroom at 107 N. Maryland Ave. was likely caused by a space heater. No one was living in the home except a large number of cats and the property owner, Darla Chugden, who was returning periodically to feed them, officials said, noting the interior of the house was in poor condition. A number of cats died in the fire, which was confined to a single room. Damage was estimated at $500.
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