Lima Fire identifies MacKenzie Drive apartment fire victim
LIMA A 65-year-old woman was identified as the victim of a Sunday night apartment fire on MacKenzie Drive.
Karen Keith, who was identified as the victim by the Lima Fire Department on Thursday, was pronounced dead at the scene of the fire at 1050 MacKenzie Drive on Sunday evening.
Firefighters found a portable oxygen tank and smoking materials in the bedroom of the apartment that caught fire.
LFD Chief Greg Kirkendall on Thursday said there were no indications of foul play after the department’s preliminary investigation.
The fire caused an estimated $10,000-worth of damages to the structure, owned by Rebecca Apartments of Lima Ltd.
A woman is dead in what police are calling an accidental fire.
The Lima Police Department says 65-year-old Karen Keith died in a home fire at the Andover Apartment Complex on Mackenzie Drive. The Lima Fire Department responded to the house around 9 p.m. Sunday night. The victim was found dead in the bathroom while a fire was in her bedroom. With what was found inside, police believe the woman was smoking while she was on oxygen. Police don t believe there was any foul play.
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One person dead in Sunday evening Lima apartment fire
LIMA A person whose identity has not yet been revealed died in a Sunday night house fire in Lima.
According to a spokesman for the Lima Fire Department, firefighters responded at 9:13 p.m. Sunday to 1050 MacKenzie Drive in response to a report of a person possible still inside a burning apartment building.
Upon their arrival firefighters found smoke coming from the structure and forced their way inside, where they found a victim deceased in the bathroom of the apartment. A fire was burning in a bedroom, where firefighters also found a portable oxygen tank and smoking materials, according to the LFD spokesman.
Operation Light It Up a success in Livingston County
Sheriff s operation concluded at Noyes Health in Dansville
Staff reports
DANSVILLE Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty reports the first ever “OPERATION LIGHT IT UP” in Livingston County was a success, achieving its mission of brightening the day of senior citizens in nursing facilities and Noyes hospital in Dansville.
On Dec. 9, the Sheriff’s Office initiated the planning of the operation and invited all its public safety partners in policing, fire and EMS to join in the effort.
On Dec. 17, the mission became operational starting at the Sheriff’s Office at 5 p.m. and traveling throughout the county, ending in Dansville at 8 p.m.