BALTIMORE – The household of two Maryland sisters who died in a fireplace at a trip rental final summer time within the Hamptons filed a lawsuit in opposition to the house owners of the property and rental web site Homeaway.com.
The lawsuit claims the house in Sag Harbor, New York had “nugatory carcasses of non-functioning alarms” regardless of an e-mail from HomeAway, saying it had working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and a fireplace extinguisher, the New York Submit reported.
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The lawsuit says the rental house was misrepresented as secure.
Jillian and Lindsay Wiener, from Potomac, Maryland, had been on trip within the Lengthy Island city with their brother Zachary, mom, Alisa, and father, Lewis, based on the Southampton Police Division.
A fireplace that killed two Maryland sisters whereas they had been on trip is underneath investigation
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At about 3:35 a.m. on Aug. 3, city authorities obtained a name a few fireplace on the house on Spring Lane. Fireplace departments from 5 completely different cities responded to the blaze.
Each Alisa and Lewis escaped. Once they realized the kids had not gotten out, Lewis tried to re-enter the home however flames from a fireplace prevented him from doing so.
Zachary escaped by leaping out of a second-story window, however 21-year-old Jillian and 19-year-old Lindsay could not escape the fast-moving fireplace.
Fireplace personnel discovered the women inside the house. They had been then taken to SUNY Southampton Hospital, the place they died from their accidents, police stated.
Jillian was headed to her senior yr on the College of Michigan and Lindsay was set to return to Tulane College as a sophomore.
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“Defendants’ greed, corner-cutting and willful failure to offer any thought to the protection of the occupants of the premises led to the deaths of Jillian Rose Wiener and her sister Lindsay Eliza Wiener,” the lawsuit states.
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