HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — An early morning house fire in Huntington has left a woman dead. There were two people inside the home when the blaze broke out around 6:30 Monday morning.
There was an early report somebody might be inside and firefighters did their best, but the flames were too intense to go very far into the house for a search and rescue mission. The woman was trapped on the second floor and fire fighters were driven back by heavy flames and smoke as they attempted to get inside.
The woman is identified as Dreama Adkins, 70, of Huntington. She was trapped on the second floor. Her son was also in the house at the time, but managed to escape unharmed.
The fire was already spreading through all three floors of the aging structure when fire fighters got to the scene. Officials say the older age construction of the house, which was built in 1900, added to the intensity of the fire and its rapid spread.
Adkins’ body was discovered after the fire was finally out.
It was Huntington’s first fatal fire of 2020.