ALGONA, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have released the names of a woman who died at the scene of a house fire in northern Iowa and two other women injured in the fire.
Firefighters were sent to the Algona residence early Tuesday found a bedroom ablaze.
The Mason City Globe Gazette reports (https://bit.ly/2rRFYym ) that authorities identified the dead woman as 29-year-old Jessica Lierley Southard, of Des Moines. Kossuth County Emergency Manager David Penton says she was the daughter of one of the women injured, 63-year-old Patrice Lierley, also of Des Moines, and the niece of the other woman injured, 69-year-old Karen Lierley, of Algona.
Penton says the mother and daughter were visiting Karen Lierley at her home when the fire broke out.
The fire cause is being investigated.
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Information from: Globe Gazette, https://www.globegazette.com/
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