Smoke emanating from a fridge fire kills man, wife, mom in city
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.06.2019
A journalist working with a Tamil TV channel, his wife and mother were found dead on Thursday at their house in East Tambaram and police suspect they could have been asphyxiated by dense smoke after their refrigerator caught fire around 2am.
B Prasanna, 36, a reporter with News J channel, and his mother Revathy, 59, a retired government employee, were found collapsed in the living room, apparently while trying to open the front door. His wife Archana, 32, a teacher, was found on her bed. None of them had burn injuries.
Police said a short-circuit could have sparked the fire as the fridge did not have a stabilizer. It was also placed next to a plastic door to the pooja room, which too was charred in the fire. Forensic experts said the smoke would have been dense and the three would have been caught unawares as they were in bed.
Prasanna and wife were sleeping in one room and his mother in another room. Both rooms had airconditioners. The family lived on the first floor of the building at Thirumangai Mannan Street in East Tambaram.
B Prasanna with wife Archana
Domestic help alerted relatives in the morning
Their domestic help who turned up for work at 9am found smoke emanating from the house and alerted Prasanna’s aunt Srimathi when there was no response to her knocks on the door. Fire and rescue services broke open the door and recovered the bodies.
Police said the power had gone off during the fire in which the fridge was completely gutted as were some inflammable material near it. The Selaiyur police registered a case of accidental death and further investigations are on. The house, which was painted white, had turned black and the smell of smoke pervaded the area even 15 hours later. Fingerprints in the soot-laced hall were evidence of Prasanna’s and his mother’s last moments as they tried to find a way out.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:28.06.2019
A journalist working with a Tamil TV channel, his wife and mother were found dead on Thursday at their house in East Tambaram and police suspect they could have been asphyxiated by dense smoke after their refrigerator caught fire around 2am.
B Prasanna, 36, a reporter with News J channel, and his mother Revathy, 59, a retired government employee, were found collapsed in the living room, apparently while trying to open the front door. His wife Archana, 32, a teacher, was found on her bed. None of them had burn injuries.
Police said a short-circuit could have sparked the fire as the fridge did not have a stabilizer. It was also placed next to a plastic door to the pooja room, which too was charred in the fire. Forensic experts said the smoke would have been dense and the three would have been caught unawares as they were in bed.
Prasanna and wife were sleeping in one room and his mother in another room. Both rooms had airconditioners. The family lived on the first floor of the building at Thirumangai Mannan Street in East Tambaram.
B Prasanna with wife Archana
Domestic help alerted relatives in the morning
Their domestic help who turned up for work at 9am found smoke emanating from the house and alerted Prasanna’s aunt Srimathi when there was no response to her knocks on the door. Fire and rescue services broke open the door and recovered the bodies.
Police said the power had gone off during the fire in which the fridge was completely gutted as were some inflammable material near it. The Selaiyur police registered a case of accidental death and further investigations are on. The house, which was painted white, had turned black and the smell of smoke pervaded the area even 15 hours later. Fingerprints in the soot-laced hall were evidence of Prasanna’s and his mother’s last moments as they tried to find a way out.
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