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Two women in Southold, a small town on the tip of Suffolk, died this Tuesday in a tragic two-story house fire, which shook the town.
Neighbor Eugene Schwanke called 911 at 5:20 am after he smelled smoke and noticed the flames. When the first police officer arrived, he was turned away from the intensity of the fire and smoke. 100 firefighters from the Southold, Mattituck, Cutchogue, East Marion and Greenport fire departments answered the call. By the time they arrived two minutes later, the entire house was already up in flames. The first pumper truck arrived five minutes after the call.
Barbara Primich, 56, was trapped inside with her mother, Kathryn Primich, 83. The smoke and heat made the firefighters' search difficult, so they focused their attention near windows. Both women were eventually found in different parts of the house.
Schwanke, the neighbor, reported that the victims had moved into their house twenty years earlier. He had last seen Barbara Primich a few weeks before. Kathryn, her mother, had been in failing health.
The two-story wooden house did not have sprinklers and authorities were unsure as to whether they had smoke alarms installed.
The small community, in which everyone generally knows everyone else, is mourning the tragedy.
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