A FIRE IN NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK, early Wednesday morning took the lives of a couple who had been married for more than 60 years. Ronald Moyer, 88, and his wife Margaret, 89, had lived in the same house since Ronald came home from serving in WW II and built the house himself. They had five children and 20 grandchildren.
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The Buffalo News reports:
Assistant North Tonawanda Fire Chief Richard Kozak, among the first of about 30 paid and volunteer firefighters to respond, said that when they arrived, “the front of the house was fully involved, with flames coming out the front window.”
Firefighters also spotted two partially melted vehicles, one in a garage, and neighbors told them they believed both husband and wife were inside the house.
“We made an aggressive interior attack,” Kozak said. “We had the female victim out of the house really quick. We went through the bedroom window, and she was in the bedroom.”
Margaret Moyer was brought outside to a waiting ambulance, where she was pronounced dead.
Heavy fire conditions and a collapsing roof hindered the search for her husband, who was found a few minutes later on the opposite side of the house, near a stairwell, fire officials said.
Early investigation indicates that the wood stove used for heating may have been overloaded with logs and the hostile fire started there.
WIVB-TV Ch. 4 has this video report with some fire footage included:
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