A woman and her daughter were found dead after a wide-spreading fire swept through their North Akron home (OH), reports the Akron Beacon Journal.
The bodies of Elaine Csora, 52, and her daughter, Jennifer Barlow, 28, were each found in bed inside their respective second-floor bedrooms in the home they shared.
Autopsies are planned by the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office. A cause of the fire, which essentially gutted the two-story house, is under investigation.
Akron Fire Capt. Al Bragg said dispatchers received a 911 call about 2:20 a.m. He said it appears the fire started on the first floor and spread down to the basement and up to the second floor of the colonial style home.
The department received a number of calls from neighbors and passers-by. An Akron police officer arrived at the scene about the same time as firefighters.
Based on the number of calls, Bragg said, the smoke and flames were “substantial.”
Bragg said there were no working smoke detectors inside the house, he said.
“It’s unfortunate because smoke detectors have been proven to more than double your chances of surviving,” Bragg said.
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