SEEKONK, Mass. (AP) -- Three people died early Sunday in a fire at a Seekonk home caused by a portable electric heater, the state fire marshal said.
The fire was reported at about 2:25 a.m. at a two-story, wood-frame house on Taunton Avenue, State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said.
The fire was an accident caused when an electric heater set fire to the bedding in a bedroom, he said.
Three people sleeping in three beds in the first-floor front bedroom were killed in the fire. He did not give a cause of death. The identities of the victims haven't been released, pending notification of family.
There were no smoke detectors in the home, Coan said.
He urged people to install smoke detectors and to make sure they had live batteries, noting that no working smoke detectors had been found after another fire two weeks ago in the Cape Cod town of Dennis that killed five people.
