ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 11, 1996 TAG: 9604110022
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BETTY HAYDEN STAFF WRITER
Jennifer Gilmore was listening to AC/DC and her 6-year-old son, Kenneth, was on the floor coloring when she decided to go downstairs for a snack. A couple of minutes later, Gilmore and her grandparents discovered the upstairs of their Salem home was on fire.
"God wanted me to be hungry," Gilmore, 27, said Tuesday night while firefighters hosed down the attic. "And God must not like AC/DC."
No one was injured in the fire, which started about 11 p.m. in the second-floor bedroom that Gilmore and her son share. Gilmore's grandparents, John and Dorothy Angell, have lived in the house at 819 Indiana St. since the 1940s.
Dorothy Angell, 65, was in the living room when the fire started. She said she'd just turned on the television show "Vega$" when she heard a popping noise. Gilmore, who was putting a TV dinner in the microwave, said she also heard the popping sound.
Then John Angell, 69, came out of a first-floor bedroom and said the house was on fire, Dorothy Angell said.
An electrical short likely sparked the blaze, Salem Fire Capt. Ronnie Perdue said.
Firefighters put the fire out within five minutes and contained most of the damage to the second floor and attic, he said.
Perdue estimated the total damages at $10,000.
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