BOOTHBAY, Maine (AP) - Family members say one of the men who died in a house fire in Maine broke a window allowing his girlfriend to escape with knowledge that he wouldn’t make it.
Elva Zamora, sister of Baldomero “Bart” Zamora, tells the Portland Press Herald (https://bit.ly/2e0DxhR ) that her brother knew breaking the second-floor window would engulf the room by fueling the fire with oxygen. She says he had no choice because the stairs had collapsed.
The 50-year-old Zamora of Chicago died next to the window but his 48-year-old girlfriend, Julie Gilbert, survived the second-story jump. Her son, 23-year-old Lucas Farias, also died in the fire.
The fire marshal’s office is investigating the cause of the fire early Sunday in Boothbay. A Winslow woman and her two young children on the ground floor escaped with minor injuries.
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This story has been corrected to show survivor Julie Gilbert was victim’s girlfriend, not wife.
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Information from: Portland Press Herald, https://www.pressherald.com
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