THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, February 11, 1995 TAG: 9502110114
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
A 65-year-old man was killed Friday when he tried to pour a flammable liquid on a wood stove in his home and the container he was using caught fire.
His wife was burned while trying to rescue him.
The body of the victim, tentatively identified as Glenn L. Moser, was sent to the state medical examiner's office in Norfolk for identification and an examination.
The fire, reported at 4:19 p.m., destroyed the home in the 3000 block of Bunch Walnuts Road in the Hickory area.
Fire investigator Greg Orfield said Moser went outside to get some fuel for the blaze he and his wife, Mona Moser, 56, had built in the stove.
He returned a few moments later and began pouring a liquid on the stove.
``The fire then started burning up the flammable liquid to the container and caught the container on fire,'' Orfield said. Moser reacted, and burning fuel was spilled on him and around the house.
Mona Moser fled the house and then returned through a back door to try to reach her husband. She suffered smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on her hands. She was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where she was treated in the Burn Trauma Unit Friday night.
Orfield said that by the time the first firetrucks arrived, the home was engulfed in flames. Because there are no hydrants in the area, fire trucks had to shuttle back and forth to supply water.
The liquid Moser used may have been a paint thinner or ``very old gasoline,'' Orfield said.
A sample of the fuel was sent to the Virginia State Police laboratory in Richmond.
KEYWORDS: FIRE FATALITY by CNB