TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. - Eleven developmentally disabled adults were evacuated from a group home April 9 when a frayed electrical wire on an air mattress started a fire in a bedroom, state officials said.
No one was injured in the blaze, which came less than two weeks after four residents died in a fire at the Riverview group home in Wells.
Both homes are run by the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities facilities.
An OMRDD official said a smoke alarm went off Thursday at the Haymeadow Road home at 7:30 p.m. One staff member used a fire extinguisher to put the fire out while three others evacuated the "medically frail" residents.
The residents are expected to return to the home April 10.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Another NY group home damaged by fire
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