December Logged as Ohio's Deadliest Month for
Fires in 2014. 16 PEOPLE LOST THEIR
LIVES IN DECEMBER AND 115 DURING THE YEAR.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A string of multiple-fatality home
blazes made December Ohio's deadliest fire month of 2014 and pushed the annual
death toll to 115.
Statistics from the state fire marshal's office show 16
people were killed by fires last month, causing an increase in the year's death
toll after three straight years of declining numbers. The state reported 103
fire deaths in 2013, after 106 in 2012.
An early morning house fire in Hamilton killed three
children in southwest Ohio on Dec. 12. Two adults were killed in a Dec. 24 fire
in Monroe County in eastern Ohio. On Dec. 26, a woman and her three grandsons
died in a fire in her home near Washington Court House in southwest Ohio.
There have been seven fire deaths already this year.