Victim IDs in Pitman Fatal Fire

February 3, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

The victims in a house fire early this morning (2/3/10) at 500 Wildwood Ave. in Pitman N.J. were: Barbara Powell (DOB 4/2/48), deceased in the fire, and Jane Esbjornson (DOB 3/8/25), Powell’s mother, who suffered injuries in the fire and has been transferred from Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Washington Township, Gloucester County N.J. to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. She is in critical condition.

An autopsy this morning by the Gloucester County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of Powell’s death was smoke inhalation.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.