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Mobile Home Blaze Kills 3 In Honea Path

Investigators: Stove Likely Culprit

POSTED: 4:38 pm EST January 3, 2010
UPDATED: 4:57 pm EST January 3, 2010

The Honea Path fire department said three people were killed in a blaze located at 5 Hammett Street in Honea Path late Saturday night.

Responding firefighters said the mobile home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived.

While extinguishing the fire, firefighters located the bodies of 43-year-old Fred Benard Jackson, 46-year-old Maxine Anty Jackson, and their 19-year-old daughter, Faith Laporsha Jackson.

According to the Anderson County coroner's report, the three died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning.

There were no smoke detectors in the home, authorities said.

Officials said two other children that lived at the home were staying the night in Ware Shoals and were not home at the time of the fire.

Though a conclusive cause has not been found, investigators are looking to the stove area as the possible source of ignition. According to authorities, there did not appear to be any working heat inside the mobile home, and that the family had been using space heaters instead.

The HPFD and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are continuing to investigate the blaze.

A total of four people were killed in house fires in the Upstate on Saturday. An unidentified woman died in a fire at the Wood Glen apartments in Greenwood on shortly after 3 a.m., according to the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office. The GCSO said that fire appeared to be accidental.

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