Three sisters die in vicarage blaze
- Title
- Three sisters die in vicarage blaze
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 30 Aug 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:05
- Description
- Sally Johnson reports on an inquest that has heard how three sisters who died in a burning vicarage at Chilmark, Wiltshire, could have been saved by smoke detectors. Verdicts of accidental death were recorded on Delia Acheson, aged five, Miriam Acheson, aged ten, and Gemma Acheson, aged eleven. Their father, the Rev Malcolm Acheson, mother Pauline, brother Joseph, seven, and grandparents escaped. Includes interview with Deputy Chief Fire Officer Michael Tatem; Rev Tom Curry. Broadcast on GWR East.
- Contributors
- GWR East; Sally Johnson; Michael Tatem; Tom Curry
- Keywords
- Accidents; Deaths; Fires; Children (age group); Wiltshire; Inquests; Accidental death; Gemma Acheson; Miriam Acheson; Delia Acheson; Malcolm Acheson; Pauline Acheson; Chilmark
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LBC/IRN, "Three sisters die in vicarage blaze". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0009700349006 (Accessed 01 May 2025)