Child Playing With Matches Suspected In Deadly New York Fire

A child playing with matches may have started a blaze that killed four family members in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Friday
May 23, 2004
A child playing with matches may have started a blaze that killed four family members in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Friday, fire officials said.

Investigators believe the flames may have started when a lit match was dropped between couch cushions at the home on Wythe Place. Nine-year-old Aretha Williams, 7-month-old Dershawn Williams and two relatives, Marlene and Joseph Newton, died, and several others were injured.

The firefighters

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