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18-Month-Old Dies in El Palomar House Fire as Home Is Declared Unsafe

Prosecutors are reviewing an apparent accident to confirm how the blaze began.

Overview

  • The blaze at a house on Bergamini 2100 in El Palomar on Tuesday morning left the toddler trapped and dead.
  • The mother said she stepped out to take her 8-year-old to school and later told reporters she does not know what sparked the fire.
  • Relatives and neighbors tried to force entry and even opened a hole in a wall, but firefighters later found the child under a collapsed section of roof.
  • Authorities said the structure was beyond repair and ordered demolition because the walls could fail.
  • The case is with Morón’s UFI No. 8, led by Adriana Suárez Corripio, which opened an inquiry into the cause of death and is testing an initial accidental hypothesis.