Two Kids Among 4 Killed in Alabama Fire

Jan. 27, 2004
A fire raced through a mobile home in rural Alabama on Tuesday, killing a woman, two of her children and their grandfather.

SPEAKE, Ala. (AP) -- A fire raced through a mobile home in rural Alabama on Tuesday, killing a woman, two of her children and their grandfather.

The grandfather, 60-year-old Eugene Douglas, saved two of his daughter's young children before he died, said Lawrence County Chief Deputy Wayne Huguley.

Douglas passed Austin Norris, 4, and Andrea Norris, 2, out a window of the burning trailer before dying, Huguley said. Three other relatives, a couple and their 5-year-old son, escaped through a sliding glass door.

The other victims were identified as Priscilla Douglas Norris, 23; Leslie Norris, 7; and Stephanie Norris, 5, Huguley said.

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