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Fire DEATHS 1:25 -1-
A plume of black smoke marks the scene of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th fire deaths of the year for Fort Worth. Three small children burned to death in a blaze at a home at 19-14 Humboldt, on the city's West Side.
s. Charles McCuren, center, and Mrs. Raymond Coleman
srs. MoCuren
lost two,2 year old Charles Junior and 14 month old Roland. Mrs. Coleman lost one son, 21 month (La-wan) old Reginald. 4 year old Lajun Jean McCuren, and 21 month old Scheronda Coleman escaped death. 16 year old Louis Gibbs rescued the two girls from the blazing house but was unable to save the others because of the heat. Lawn told fire investigators the blaae began when her two year old brother, Charles-junior) started playing with an open heater. She says she told him to leave the heater alone, but i he ignored her, and the fire began. All three of the bodies were fund lying on a couch in the front room of the home. Mrs. McCuren had left the children in the house while she went to
Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the deaths of 3 young children in a fire at a home on Fort Worth's West Side.
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