12-27-2011, 02:24 AM
STAMFORD, Conn. – The fatal Connecticut fire that killed a fashion-marketing executive's three children and parents was possibly sparked by embers from disposed fireplace ashes, the New York Post has learned.
The ashes from the family's Christmas Eve yule log may have been still smoldering when they were left outside the 100-year-old, $1.7 million, Long Island Sound-view Victorian, a source said.
The wind may have blown the embers into the old, wooden building, sparking the Christmas morning blaze.
Mrs Badger and boyfriend Michael Borcina survived the horrific Christmas day fire at her Stamford, Connecticut home.
The couple had stayed up late wrapping gifts in front of the fireplace before loading the smoldering embers into a bucket WHY?? and going to bed, emergency workers told the New York Daily News. This was thought to have been the cause of the fire.
Mrs Badger's elderly father Lomer Johnson had played Santa Claus at Saks 5th Ave. right up until Christmas Eve because it was 'all he ever wanted to be'.
house has been demolished.
The ashes from the family's Christmas Eve yule log may have been still smoldering when they were left outside the 100-year-old, $1.7 million, Long Island Sound-view Victorian, a source said.
The wind may have blown the embers into the old, wooden building, sparking the Christmas morning blaze.
Mrs Badger and boyfriend Michael Borcina survived the horrific Christmas day fire at her Stamford, Connecticut home.
The couple had stayed up late wrapping gifts in front of the fireplace before loading the smoldering embers into a bucket WHY?? and going to bed, emergency workers told the New York Daily News. This was thought to have been the cause of the fire.
Mrs Badger's elderly father Lomer Johnson had played Santa Claus at Saks 5th Ave. right up until Christmas Eve because it was 'all he ever wanted to be'.
house has been demolished.