No smoke alarm in building that killed eight in Oswego County

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No smoke alarm in building that killed eight in Oswego County

RICHLAND, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities have released the names and
ages of the four children and four adults who died in yesterday's
fire at a home in central New York.

The victims of the fire in Oswego County include 26-year-old Robin Dillenbeck, her four young sons, Dillenbeck's boyfriend, the boyfriend's mother and the mother's boyfriend.

Authorities say the ages of Dillenbeck's boys were 6 months, 20 months, 6 years old and 10 years old.

The fire broke out shortly before 3 a.m. yesterday in a two-story home in the rural town of Richland, on Lake Ontario's eastern end 37 miles north of Syracuse.

The 42-year-old man who owned the home was able to flee the
building.

The county sheriff says investigators are looking at wood stoves that were used for heat as a possible cause of the fire.

Investigators do not suspect arson.

Officials say there were no smoke alarms in the home.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Monday, Jan 5 at 4:06 PM OMG wrote ...

There were no smoke alarms. What a shame. Smoke alarms probably would have saved their lives. It happened to me once. If it weren't for smoke alarms me and my family would have perished. I hope this opens some eyes. People - make sure you have working smoke alarms. God Bless that poor family!

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