WILDWOOD, Ga. — One person has died and another, burned in a Dade County house fire Saturday.
Dade County PIO Chad Payne says it happened around 6:30 at the Templeton Trailer Park off of Highway 299.
Payne says the woman died and another suffered non-life threatening second degree burns and was taken to the hospital.
Fire investigator with Insurance and Safety Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ office later ruled the cause of the fire accidental, and identified the victim as Virginia Webb.
State fire investigators report that there was nothing suspicious about the blaze and the cause appears to be electrical.
The victim’s two children Shirley Webb, 55, and Kenneth Webb, 50, escaped the blaze with minor injuries. Neither required transportation to a hospital.
“My investigator found no signs of a working smoke alarm inside the home,” Hudgens said. This is the state’s 86th fire related death in Georgia in 2017.
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WILDWOOD, Ga. (WDEF) — The Georgia Insurance and Safety Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ Office has released new information on the fatal fire in Dade County on Saturday.
Hudgens’ office identified the woman killed in the blaze as 89-year-old Virginia Webb.
The fire was reported around 5:30 p.m. off Highway 299.
State fire investigators say the cause of the fire appears to electrical and report there was nothing suspicious about the fire.
In a press release, Hudgens said, “My investigator found no signs of a working smoke alarm inside the home.”
The Georgia Department of Insurance and Safety says Webb’s death is Georgia’s 86th fire related death this year.
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WILDWOOD, Ga. (WDEF) — The Dade County coroner and dispatch confirmed that an 89-year-old woman was killed in a fire in Dade County on Saturday.
According to the Dade County Sheriff’s Office, the fire was at the Templeton Trailer Park on Highway 299 in Wildwood.
The Dade County Sheriff’s Office also says that another resident suffered second degree burns in the fire and was taken to a local hospital.
The Sheriff’s Office says the fire does not appear to be suspicious, but the investigation is still ongoing.