3/14/17
by News Department on 03/14/17Fire victim dies...
A Minersville woman who was burned critically when flames tore through the apartment building where she was living in Minersville, a year ago this month, has died.
According to the Republican Herald, 34 year old Crystal Pederson, formerly of 2 Sunbury St., Apt. C, was pronounced dead at 3:44 p.m. Saturday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Allentown.
Andrew Kehm, Lehigh County chief deputy coroner, said Pederson’s death was due to complications of second- and third-degree burns she suffered in the fire at her residence on March 25, 2016.
Kehm said the manner of death was ruled accidental.
The 2:40 p.m. fire left a total of 16 people homeless.
