Apartment fire kills three girls
From Times Wire Reports
Fire swept through an apartment in Burtonsville, killing three girls and critically injuring their mother, authorities said.
The victims, an infant and her 2- and 4-year-old sisters, were not breathing when firefighters arrived, Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer said.
Investigators believe the fire started in the kitchen after the woman placed a plastic device used to sterilize baby bottles near the stove, which was on, Piringer said. She then fell asleep.
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