Keep Combustibles at least 3 feet away from sources of heat: Woman dies in Tupelo, mississippi house fire. Fire started around a Kerosene Heater
January
1, 2015 Updated 3 hours ago
TUPELO,
Miss. — A 65-year-old woman has died in a fire at her home in Tupelo.
Tupelo
Fire Investigator Jason Cross says firefighters responded around 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday to the fire.
Cross
says the fire was small and contained to a single room, but there was a lot of
heavy smoke.
Lee
County Coroner Carolyn Green says 65-year-old Dorothy Carolyn Allen was
pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. at the North Mississippi Medical Center.
Cross
tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/1vxxan3 ) the fire
and the death have been ruled an accident.
He
says the fire started around a kerosene heater that was being used to heat the
house.