FIRE CLAIMS LIFE OF 14-YEAR-OLD BOY IN MILLEN, GEORGIA. A SPACE HEATER MAY HAVE SPARKED THE FIRE IN THE BEDROOM
February
2, 2015
MILLEN,
Ga. (AP)
Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that claimed
the life of a teenage boy in the east Georgia town of Millen.
Fire
officials say the blaze was reported around 5 a.m. Sunday at a mobile home on
U.S. 25.
Glenn
Allen, a spokesman for the state fire marshal’s office, said 14-year-old Joshua
Christopher Trent Buckley was found dead in a bedroom. Allen said the boy was
the only one home at the time. An autopsy has been scheduled on his body.
Allen
said the cause of the blaze remains under investigation, and that investigators
are looking at a space heater in the bedroom where the boy was found as a
possible cause.
Millen
is about 50 miles south of Augusta.