Andrea Dennis, Kyle Raulin,

Al Schlessman, Erin DeMarco,

and Christine Wilson

These five students died at

Ohio State University on

April 13, 2003

This is a picture of my daughter Andrea.  You’ll also notice on the right the house she died in.  The house was equipped with ionization
detectors, some worked and some had the batteries removed.  Andrea and four other students died of smoke inhalation, not the heat.
Most people don’t get burned to death, they die from smoke inhalation.  The smoke detector that would have detected the smoke first
would have possibly given the students a chance.  We’ll talk about why batteries get removed from ionization detectors later.