According to a press release from Assistant Poteau Police Chief, Greg Russell, On March 2, 2020 at 4:19pm the , Poteau Fire, Poteau Police, and LeFlore County EMS were dispatched to a structure fire at 604 Dewey Avenue in the city limits of Poteau.
The structure was a two story building that served as a residence.
The caller stated that two people were still inside the building.
Poteau Fire located and removed two people (Kenneth W. Foster, 73 & Linda O. Henson, 51) from the second floor of the building.
LeFlore County EMS transported Foster and Henson to Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center, from which they were transported by helicopter to a hospital in Tulsa.
Henson passed away from her injuries at the hospital in Tulsa.
Foster remains in a Tulsa hospital in critical condition. Poteau Police Detectives, the Oklahoma Office of the State Fire Marshall, and the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are continuing the investigation into the incident.
Preliminary findings show the cause of the fire as undetermined, unable to rule out electrical.
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