Candle Blamed for Deadly Long Island House Fire
Fire officials say an unattended candle caused the house fire on Long Island that killed a 68-year-old woman and her four-year-old granddaughter.
The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office says there were no working smoke detectors in the New Hyde Park home that caught fire Sunday morning.
Maria Karpinski and her granddaughter Brooke Schillizzi died in the blaze, and a 10-year-old boy who jumped out a window to escape was injured.
Two other people in the house were uninjured.
The house was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. It took the hundreds of firefighters that responded more than an hour to get the blaze under control.
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