3-year-old girl dies during fire at Garfield Heights apartment complex
3-year-old girl dies during fire at Garfield Heights apartment complex By Chris Anderson and Syeda Abbas | March 15, 2021 at 9:44 AM EDT - Updated March 16 at 8:26 AM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A young child died during an apartment fire in Garfield Heights on Sunday night.
Kamari Maddox, 3, died at the scene of the fire, which occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday at an apartment complex in the 4600 block of East 131st Street near Forestdale Drive in Garfield Heights, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.
When firefighters got there, flames were tearing through the second floor. Heavy smoke and fire were coming from a unit on the second floor.