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4-Year-Old Boy Killed In Fire

Five Others Escape Blaze Unharmed

POSTED: 8:59 am EDT June 17, 2008
UPDATED: 1:14 pm EDT June 17, 2008

A 4-year-old boy was found dead inside a home that caught fire near Berea on Tuesday morning.

The fire happened at a home on El Dorado Drive around 1 a.m.

Firefighters said six people lived in the home. They said the father, mother and their three other children were able to get out of the home unharmed.

Firefighters said that when the parents went back inside the home to get the 4-year-old, the fire was too intense for them to reach him.

Officials said the boy was found in a closet where he had tried to find refuge from the flames.

The boy appeared to have died from smoke inhalation, investigators said.

No one else was hurt in the fire.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but firefighters said the blaze started in the same room in which the boy was found.

A spokesperson for the family said a memorial fund has been set up for the boy killed in the fire. Anyone who would like to donate to the Jordan Trammell Memorial Fund can do so at any Bank of Travelers Rest branch.

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