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To: shhrubbery!
I heard about this tragedy on this morning's news.

Here's more from Newsday:

Wendy Burlingame's death was being investigated as a suspicious death, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

Her live-in boyfriend, whose name was not released by authorities, was also in the apartment when the fire started shortly before midnight Monday, investigators said.

According to investigators, the boyfriend told them that he and Burlingame had tried to extinguish the fire with water from a sink. When tried to flee, the boyfriend made it into the hallway, but accidentally shut and locked the front door before realizing that Burlingame was not right behind him. He wasn't able to get back in.

As firefighters rushed into the 44-story building to put out the blaze, the building resident assigned as fire warden for the night found the boyfriend outside the apartment door, visibly shaken, and led him to safety.

4 posted on 12/06/2006 6:50:45 AM PST by Cagey
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To: Cagey

It sounds like that they may not believe the boyfriend's story.


6 posted on 12/06/2006 6:54:03 AM PST by LWalk18
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To: Cagey
A bit of a discrepancy between this account and one on another forum. Other story says the door shut and locked behind him. Not that he shut and locked the door.

Unless the door self locked when closed there will be hell to pay.

11 posted on 12/06/2006 7:09:34 AM PST by OldFriend (FALLEN HERO JEFFREY TOCZYLOWSKI, REST IN PEACE)
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To: Cagey

you have freepmail


12 posted on 12/06/2006 7:13:25 AM PST by OldFriend (FALLEN HERO JEFFREY TOCZYLOWSKI, REST IN PEACE)
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