California Limo Fire killing 5

Last Saturday night a white stretch limo caught on fire holding nine passengers, killing five. The bride-to-be, 31-year-old Neriza Fojas, was among the dead.  "Neriza was getting married, going to the Philippines to get married there and have a ceremony there and the reception," Nicolas told CNN from her home in Honolulu. Nine passengers were traveling in the Lincoln as it headed across the San Francisco Bay along the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.  When the driver thought about the events that had happened, he stated that one woman knocked on the window separating them and said “smoke.” He thought that she was asking to smoke a cigarette. He then told her that they only had four more minutes. About 30 seconds pass and she knocks again. That time he said he knew something was wrong.

While he was driving he started to smell the smoke. He immediately pulled over and helped one or two of the women, as the limo burned. "I just wish that there could have been something done, more," Brown said. The four passengers who got out suffered smoke inhalation and burn injuries. The bodies of the women who died were found in the car, pressed against the partition between the passenger compartment and the driver's area, authorities said. Fire officials said a crew responded quickly, but it was too late to save them.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/us/california-limo-fire/index.html?hpt=hp_t1