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Infant Death Toll Rises

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THE NUMBER OF SMALL CHILDREN WHO PERISHED in Friday’s nursery school fire  at the ABC day-care center in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo, Sonora, has risen to 35.  (Firegeezer report with video HERE.)  Also many of the 40 that are hospitalized are suffering from life-threatening burn injuries.  

After investigating the roll documents of the school, officials believe that there were 142 children inside the building when the fire took place Friday evening.  Their ages ranged from 3 months to 4 years.  “We began to smell smoke and the alarm went off,” a school aide said in an interview with the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial. “But it was explosive and there was no chance to get more children out.”

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Investigators walk around the rear of the day-care center.
(Reuters)

Earlier reports said that the fire began in a tire warehouse, but the owner vehemently denies that the fire began there.  Now investigators are concentrating on a garage next door to the day-care center that is used by a state agency to keep its vehicles.  The are certain, however, that the fire began outside of the nursery.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón said he has ordered the country’s attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, to launch an investigation into Friday’s fire.

The Associated Press has just filed this updated video report:

Posted by on June 7, 2009 • Filed under: fire
  • http://www.longislandexchange.com/ long island gal

    I am also a mother of two kids and if my kids are enrolled there, I don’t know how I can take the incident. Losing your child is very painful. This incident really has pondered a lot of lessons to us. When enrolling your child to a school always checks if they have all kinds of safety for your child. You are putting your trust to them so we all better make sure that the school can be trusted.

  • http://www.longislandexchange.com long island gal

    I am also a mother of two kids and if my kids are enrolled there, I don’t know how I can take the incident. Losing your child is very painful. This incident really has pondered a lot of lessons to us. When enrolling your child to a school always checks if they have all kinds of safety for your child. You are putting your trust to them so we all better make sure that the school can be trusted.