Three sisters die in vicarage blaze

Title

Three sisters die in vicarage blaze

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

30 Aug 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:05

Description

Sally Johnson reports on an inquest that has heard how three sisters who died in a burning vicarage at Chilmark, Wiltshire, could have been saved by smoke detectors. Verdicts of accidental death were recorded on Delia Acheson, aged five, Miriam Acheson, aged ten, and Gemma Acheson, aged eleven. Their father, the Rev Malcolm Acheson, mother Pauline, brother Joseph, seven, and grandparents escaped. Includes interview with Deputy Chief Fire Officer Michael Tatem; Rev Tom Curry. Broadcast on GWR East.

Contributors

GWR East; Sally Johnson; Michael Tatem; Tom Curry

Keywords

Accidents; Deaths; Fires; Children (age group); Wiltshire; Inquests; Accidental death; Gemma Acheson; Miriam Acheson; Delia Acheson; Malcolm Acheson; Pauline Acheson; Chilmark

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