Fire in Andover

**imported_Ruby** · December 31st, 2008, 10:17 PM

My thought and prayers are with the family. God bless the little angel.

**beamer_ball** · January 1st, 2009, 05:52 PM

http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9010738
House fire kills one near Appalachia
By Staff Report

APPALACHIA "? A residential fire claimed the life of a person Wednesday in Appalachia. Further details were unavailable about the early evening New Year's Eve blaze at 4201 Nichols Road in the Andover section of Wise County.

The Virginia State Police and Wise County Sheriff's Department are conducting a joint investigation of the fatal fire that also reportedly hospitalized a second person.

Efforts to contact Sheriff's Investigator W.C. Darnell were unsuccessful late Wednesday.

**imported_bballgal42** · January 1st, 2009, 11:22 PM

Fatal fire in Appalachia might have been caused by candleBy Steve Igo

Published January 1st, 2009

APPALACHIA "? A candle may have started the New Year's Eve house fire in Appalachia that claimed the life of a 3-year old Rogersville girl.

Wise County Sheriff's Investigator W.C. Darnell on Thursday said Vada Ann Marie Parsons, the 3-year old daughter of Glenna Brooks of Rogersville and Jacob Paul Parsons of Big Stone Gap, sought refuge in a closet in a rear bedroom of the home at 4208 Nicholas Road, occupied by her father's sister, Ritajo Sizemore.

The Appalachia Volunteer Fire Department received the call of people trapped inside a burning home at 3:28 p.m. Wednesday, Darnell said. Firefighters arrived nine minutes later but did not discover the girl's father lying unconcious on the floor of another bedroom until 4:16 p.m. The girl's body was discovered in the closet a few minutes later, he said.

Darnell said the girl was brought to Holston Valley Medical Center by her mother for treatment of a broken bone earlier Wednesday. After receiving treatment, 27-year old Jacob Parsons brought his daughter to Wise County on visitation, he said.

"They were only at the aunt's residence for two-and-a-half to three hours before this incident occurred,"? Darnell said. Sizemore was not home when the fire broke out, he said.

"We think this was an accidental fire that began in the area of the living room,"? Darnell said. "We think the cause is something like a candle."?

Darnell said Jacob Parsons is in critical care at HVMC.

**UTVols2** · January 1st, 2009, 11:48 PM

Oh man that is awful. My daughter just turned 3 two days ago and I could not imagine. I have no idea why little children have to leave this earth so early, makes me physically sick to hear of stories like these and the possible pain that child had to go thru.