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Ruling Made on Jim Thorpe Double Fatal Fire

Ruling Made on Jim Thorpe Double Fatal Fire - Friday, December 11, 2009 at 11:57AM EST

Reported by: Mark Hiller
Friday, Dec 11, 2009 @ 11:57am EST
JIM THORPE, CARBON COUNTY - A ruling is in on an early Friday morning double fatal fire in Heights section of Jim Thorpe.
State police fire marshals believe improperly discarded smoking material in a 2nd floor apartment kitchen trash can is to blame

Galen Van Dine lives across the street and described what he saw Friday morning shortly after 2 a. m.
"The flames were leaping through the windows and it was pretty scary," said Van Dine.
All he and other neighbors could do was watch in horror as fire hit 119A and 119B North Avenue.
"There was flames coming out of the one window," said Gail Christman who lived a few doors up the road and across the street. "And then there was a lot of smoke and that."

Jim Thorpe Fire Chief Bill Diehm said only one of the people who lived in the building survived.
"The mother and the daughter lived on the second floor and the daughter got out, contacted the gentleman who lived on the lower apartment and he went up to try to help this girl's mother, " said Chief Diehm.
When firefighters arrived on the scene they soon found out that the man and woman were trapped in the upper floor of the building. They pulled both out through the windows and began administering CPR.
"And they put them in the ambulance and they just kind of closed the door and the ambulance sat there which was not a productive sign, " said Van Dine.

The coroner identified the victims as 46-year-old Larry Darrohn and 63-year-old Sharon Joseph -- a former Jim Thorpe Area School Director..
Both were described as good people and Christman says Joseph was especially friendly to her step-grandchildren.
"She'd say hi to them or she'd say hi to anybody. She was a nice lady," said Christman.
Now Joseph and the man who tried to save her are the borough's first fire fatalities in a few years -- a fire that haunts this Jim Thorpe neighborhood.
"Oh, it's scary as hell," said Van Dine. "It's a disaster. You know, how else can you describe it."
 


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