TIM PRATT
Fire officials in Starkville are urging residents to check their smoke detectors this winter following two blazes in area homes over the past week.
The most recent incident was reported to Oktibbeha County E-911 around 9 a.m. Tuesday from Azalea Lane, where an electrical fire began behind a wall and the elderly resident’s smoke detector had dead batteries.
“Luckily she happened to be home at the time of the fire and smelled the smoke before the fire got big and she was able to call 911,” Fire Marshal Mark McCurdy said. He did not release the woman’s address on Azalea Lane.
The fire started inside a living room wall due to a faulty wire connected to an electrical outlet, McCurdy said. Firefighters had to cut out a roughly 3-by-3-foot section of wall to gain access to the blaze.
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