Emporia fire and police officials have determined the cause of yesterday’s fatal fire at an apartment house near campus, at 12 East 11th Ave., to be combustibles too close to the floor furnace in the apartment, according to a news release by the fire department.
Two students, a man and a woman believed to be international students from China, were killed. An autopsy on the man, who died at the scene, determined that he died from inhalation of hot gases and products of combustion, according to the news release.
The woman was life-flighted to Wichita. She died yesterday afternoon at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital.
More information will be released from officials as it becomes available.
Kenzie Templeton/The Bulletin
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So sad. The apartments should be regularly checked by the authorities for its safety requirements to avoid this kind of problem.