Detector couldn't alert him to fire
Jump to full article: Detroit (MI) Free Press, 2008-04-16
Author: NAOMI R. PATTON / FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER •
Intro: Leonard Goggins had a fondness for smoking cigars and had smoke detectors in his two-story home on Detroit's west side.
But the smoke detector outside the 90-year-old's bedroom on the second floor didn't have a battery, and that cost Goggins his life early Tuesday morning, said Detroit Fire Capt. Steve Varnas.
Firefighters were called to the home in the 3200 block of Doris at 3:33 a.m. Smoke was pouring from Goggins' bedroom.
Varnas said Goggins apparently fell asleep in a chair while smoking a cigar. Goggins' walker had been moved as if he tried to escape, the captain said.
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