Girl, 3, dies after Indiana apartment fire kills dad, sister

INDIANAPOLIS — A 3-year-old lady has died greater than two weeks after she was critically injured in an Indianapolis condominium fireplace that killed her father and 15-month-old sister, a fireplace official stated.

Battalion Chief Rita Reith stated the Indianapolis Fireplace Division was notified that the lady died Thursday morning. She was amongst 5 individuals hospitalized after firefighters pulled them, unconscious and in cardiac arrest, from the smoke-filled condominium on Jan. 9.

The lady’s 31-year-old father died two days after the fireplace, whereas her 15-month-old sister died the following day. He was recognized by the Marion County Coroner’s Workplace as Raymond Diggs, whereas the toddler was recognized as Leilani Rembert.

Reith stated a 12-year-old boy stays hospitalized, whereas a 14-year-old boy has been launched from the hospital and is constant to get well.

The youngsters’s mom was not dwelling when the fireplace broke out on the town’s far east facet, officers stated. Investigators have decided the fireplace began on a sofa, however the actual trigger stays underneath investigation, Reith stated.

Burning couches can emit harmful chemical substances, and the victims might have been sleeping whereas the fireplace burned, Reith has stated.

Fireplace investigators stated a smoke alarm had been faraway from the condominium in some unspecified time in the future previous to the fireplace for an unknown cause. Condo administration instructed investigators there was a working smoke alarm within the condominium about two weeks earlier than the fireplace.