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.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Another NY group home damaged by fire
From Times Union: