CALDWELL, Idaho — The Caldwell Fire Department responded to a report of a housefire in Greenleaf on Tucker Rd. at 11 pm on Friday, March 29.
When they arrived the home was fully engulfed in flames. A 64-year-old woman was inside the home during the fire, she sadly passed away. The coroner is expected to release the cause of her death shortly.
According to a social media post by the Caldwell Fire Department, the lack of operational smoke detectors were directly responsible for this fire claiming a life.
The Caldwell Fire Department is reminding Idahoans that:
- Roughly three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
- More than one-third of home fire deaths result from fires in which no smoke alarms are present.
- The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke alarms.