Woman killed in morning house fire, Lexington County Coroner says
A Midlands woman died following a Monday morning house fire, the Lexington County Coroner’s Office said.
At about 11 a.m., Bonnie Gayle Bass was found in a burning home in the 200 block of Waverly Court, Coroner Margaret Fisher said in a news release. That’s in Lexington, near Old Chapin Road and about half a mile from the intersection of West Main Street and Columbia Avenue.
The 50-year-old was taken to an area hospital where she died, according to the release.
No cause of death has been made public, and an autopsy is scheduled Tuesday.
Information on the cause of the fire, and its origin, was not available, but it’s being investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Lexington Police Department.
This was not the only fire recently reported in the Midlands.
A house fire Friday on South Lake Drive in Lexington County left a family of five without a home, according to the American Red Cross.
In a span of 90 minutes on Saturday night, two unrelated fires at a pair of Columbia homes separated by less than 2 miles displaced 10 people.
There were two separate fires in Sumter County, including a Friday morning blaze on West Moore Street that displaced a family of two, followed by a Sunday night fire that left two people who lived at a house on Highway 15 without their home, the American Red Cross said.
At about 1 p.m. Sunday, units with the Lexington County Fire Service, Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and The South Carolina Forestry Commission responded to the 4100 block of Two Notch Road in the Gilbert area for a fast-moving fire in the woods that destroyed a vacant mobile home, camper and vehicles. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
Unlike Monday’s fire in Lexington, no injuries were reported in any of these incidents.
There was a deadly fire in Lexington County on Feb. 28, when a 67-year-old West Columbia man died from injuries he sustained in the fire at a home in the 700 block of Westside Drive. Like this most recent fire, the cause of that blaze is being investigated by SLED.
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