Update: No Foul Play Found in Fatal House Fire in Chevy Chase
Update, Tuesday: Montgomery County police have determined no foul play was involved in the fatal house that claimed two lives in Chevy Chase last week.
The victims have been identified as John Ashton Randolph, 61, and Inga Randolph, 94, who both lived in the home.
The Office of the Chief Medical Officer determined their causes of death to be smoke inhalation and thermal burns.
Original Post: Two people died in a residential fire in Chevy Chase early Wednesday morning, a fire spokesman said.
The fire at the home, in the 4900 block of Western Avenue, started about 1 a.m., according to Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services.
When units arrived, the home was engulfed in flames, he said. Although firefighters arrived, they quickly knocked down the fire and found two occupants in different sections of the two-story home.
The fire remains under investigation. A “high volume of materials” were in the home, Piringer said.
The two victims are the first and second fatalities the county has recorded in a residential fire this year, he said.
Piringer’s Twitter feed provides arresting photos of fire.
Update – Western Av, cause & origin of fire is still ‘under investigation’ note: nothing has been ruled out, also preliminary indications are there were likely no working smoke alarms pic.twitter.com/gV44kfMzEM
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
ICYMI (~1a) 4900blk Western Av, house fire, FFs on scene w/ heavy fire & located & removed 2 occupants, both DOA, @mcfrs units PE711, PE706, PE707, PE710, PE720, T706, T710, RS741, A741B, BC702, BC704, E750B, E726, A741C, CT705, AR716, SA700, EMS704 & others were on call pic.twitter.com/7p3tnuMYXx
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Traffic Advisory – 4900blk Western Av, FD activity, road/street closed/blocked btwn River Rd & Massachusetts Avenue pic.twitter.com/Mn1hL63nfw
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
NOTICE: MoCo Western Av Double Fatal MEDIA Briefing/ UPDATE at 545a w/ @mcfrs Fire Chief Scott Goldstein at Media Staging area 48th St & Western Av pic.twitter.com/SgLKW8j77N
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
.@mcfrs Fire Chief Scott Goldstein briefs local media RE (1a – 11/21) Double Fatal Fire @MontgomeryCoMD on Western Av pic.twitter.com/wdeA8GdeeQ
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Update – Western Av (~1a), @mcfrs FFs arrived & encountered heavy fire, located & removed 2 patients, both succumbed (DOA), Fire is under control, crews working on ‘hot spots’, cause is under investigation NOTE: 1st & 2nd residential fire fatality of year in MoCo pic.twitter.com/ElWini1WlW
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Traffic Advisory – Western Av CLOSED/BLOCKED Between River Road and 49th St., NE or Massachusetts Avenue, FD activity pic.twitter.com/awC30gqJfn
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Correction – Western Avenue, two patients removed by firefighters, Believed to be the only two occupants all the house, both did not survive https://t.co/FUOPLyuPqj
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Update – Western Avenue, @mcfrs firefighters arrived with house ‘well-involved’, firefighters located 3 patients & removed them from the structure, both succumbed to their injuries & did not survive https://t.co/MPbfEJTsZb
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
(~1a) 4900blk Western Av , house fire pic.twitter.com/ifzLs7ZTm5
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein briefed reporters on the fire:
MCFRS Fire Chief Scott Goldstein w/ 6a media briefing/update from the scene of fatal house fire on Western Av @MontgomeryCoMD @mcfrs @MCFRSNews (initial dispatch ~1a 11/21) pic.twitter.com/H2UpNZ5jBJ
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 21, 2018
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