posted by Joe Polk at 10:12 AM /
Three people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after a mattress caught fire at a Mt. Lebanon apartment complex early today.
Platoon Chief Glenn Wallace said firefighters were called to 53 Academy Ave. by a woman who thought she smelled smoke about 2 a.m. Firefighters traced the smoke to a first-floor apartment with an unlocked door and found four people inside. Three of the occupants had to be awakened and needed assistance getting out of the apartment while a fourth made it out without help, he said.
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Platoon Chief Glenn Wallace said firefighters were called to 53 Academy Ave. by a woman who thought she smelled smoke about 2 a.m. Firefighters traced the smoke to a first-floor apartment with an unlocked door and found four people inside. Three of the occupants had to be awakened and needed assistance getting out of the apartment while a fourth made it out without help, he said.
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- www.postgazette.com/pg/12038/1208657-100.stm (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Labels: academy avenue, fire department
3 Comments:
Smoke alarms & CO monitors, folks....we should all have them in and throughout our residences. And unlocked front doors...at night ?
Bill Lewis
And people smart enough NOT to smoke in bed?
Think of how many people could have been killed because of this!
I now hear on good authority that there was in fact a smoke alarm in the apartment, but the battery had been taken out !
Bill Lewis
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