Fire Guts Apartment;Animals Die

There was a fire at Palm beach. Someone had reported that there were animals in the building. The Martin County rescuers tried for more than 30 minutes, to rescue the animals, but int he end their attempts had failed.=(

There was a pet dog, snake, and cat that died in the blaze.

There was no-one home when the fire started, therefore no-one to put it out.The investigators said that the fire started by the light in the aquarium the snake was held in.

The two owners were Brian Buxton and Ivy German.

The Martin County deputy Dale Howard said it was too hot to even attempt to go inside the building. He said that shortly after he arrived at the fire at 2:00 a.m.

"There were flames when I came around the corner," he said.
The heat from the fire had already caused a window to shatter by the time the first fire trucks.

Some of the officials said that it was contained to the one apartment, but there was probably smoke in some of the other apartments.

Red Lettering=PalmBeachPost.com