Park Service: 2 children found dead after trailer fire at recreation area on Ariz.-Nev. border
By APTuesday, July 20, 2010
2 children found dead after fire at Ariz. marina
TEMPLE BAR, Ariz. — Two children have been found dead after a trailer fire in employee housing at a marina in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, on the Arizona-Nevada border.
National Park Service spokesman Andrew Munoz says the single-wide trailer at was fully engulfed when Park Service volunteer firefighters and park rangers arrived at the Temple Bar Marina on Monday.
Few other details were released.
Munoz says the victims’ names, ages and hometowns were being withheld pending completion of the preliminary investigation. The bodies have been turned over to the Mohave County medical examiner.
Investigators from the Park Service and the Clark County Fire Department in Las Vegas are trying to determine the fire’s cause.
Temple Bar Marina is about 45 miles from Hoover Dam.
