Conn. blaze tied to fireplace

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Conn. blaze tied to fireplace

December 27th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

STAMFORD, Conn. — A Christmas morning fire that killed three children and their grandparents was related to a fireplace in the home, Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia said Tuesday.

Foul play has been ruled out, he added, describing the cause as “fireplace-related.” He did not provide more details.

Investigators are focusing on the ashes from a Yule log that were placed in a bucket before the family went to bed, NBC Connecticut reported.

Madonna Badger, whose parents and three daughters died, survived along with a contractor who had worked on the Victorian home.

The home was demolished Monday due to the fire damage and safety concerns.

Badger had a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins. Her parents were visiting her home for the holidays.

Badger’s father, Lomer Johnson, had worked as a Santa at Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship store in Manhattan. “Mr. Johnson was Saks Fifth Avenue’s beloved Santa, and we are heartbroken about this terrible tragedy,” Saks spokeswoman Julia Bently said.

Neighbors said they awoke to the sound of screaming shortly before 5 a.m. on Christmas morning and rushed outside to help, but they could only watch in horror as flames devoured the grand home and the shocked, injured survivors were led away from the house.

Badger, a New York ad executive in the fashion industry, is the founder of New York City-based Badger Winters Group. A supervisor at Stamford Hospital said she was treated and discharged by Sunday evening.

Property records show she bought the five-bedroom, waterfront home for $1.7 million last year. The house is situated in Shippan Point, a wealthy neighborhood that juts into Long Island Sound.

The male acquaintance who also escaped the blaze was a contractor who was doing work on the home, Stamford police Sgt. Paul Guzda said. He was also hospitalized but his condition was not released.

“It is a terrible, terrible day,” Pavia told reporters at the scene of the fire on Sunday. “There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford.”

The Stamford Advocate identified the contractor as a male friend named Michael Borcina.

Police officers drove Badger’s husband, Matthew Badger, from New York City to Stamford on Sunday morning. The Badgers reportedly are separated.

Firefighters knew there were other people in the home but could not get to them because the flames were too large and the heat too intense, said Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte, his voice cracking with emotion.

“It’s never easy. That’s for sure,” he said. “I’ve been on this job 38 years … not an easy day.”

Image: Madonna Badger

Jim Cooper
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AP File

A neighbor who lives across the street, Sam Cingari Jr., said he was awakened by the sound of screaming and saw that the house was engulfed by flames.

“We heard this screaming at 5 in the morning,” he said. “The whole house was ablaze and I mean ablaze.”

He told The Advocate that he later learned the screams were coming from Madonna Badger.

“The reason she was screaming, of course, was because her family was inside the house,” he said.

Cingari said he did not know his neighbors, who he said bought the house last year and were renovating it.

Charles Mangano, who lives nearby, said his wife woke him up and alerted him to the fire. He ran outside to see if he could help and saw fire trucks in front of the house.

“I heard someone yell ‘Help, help, help me!’ and I started sprinting up my driveway,” Mangano told The Advocate.

He told the newspaper he saw a barefoot man wearing boxers and a T-shirt with no shoes and a woman being taken out of the house.

The woman said, “My whole life is in there,” Mangano said. “They were both obviously in a state of shock.”

The house was undergoing heavy construction last summer, he told The Advocate.