Contact: Annette Ponce, PIO
Date: July 30, 2001
Office: 214-670-7949 Immediate
Release
Pager : 214-670-4115,code 9885
One-Alarm Fire Results in Fire Fatality
Date of Incident: July 30, 2001
Location: 3723 S. Versailles
Response: One Alarm
5 Major pieces of equipment
Times: 1st alarm 7:20
p.m.
Under
Control @ 7:46 p.m.
Cause: Undetermined
Fatalities: One
male
Damages: $50,000-Structure
$30,000-Content
Details: Dallas Firefighters responded to a fire at 3723 S.
Versailles this evening. The fire seems to have started in the back area of the
home. Firefighters went into the home and found the victim in the front area of
the house. Rescue eleven immediately started CPR on the victim once he was
removed from the home. The man was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial
Hospital at 8:26 p.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation.