Fire kills US advertising executive's girls and parents

[Joshua Farrell]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/16334638

An affluent community in the US state of Connecticut is coming to terms with a fire that killed an advertising executive's three children and parents.

Madonna Badger was unable to save her daughters - a 10-year-old and seven-year-old twins - and her parents as flames devoured her waterfront home.

Neighbours said they were awoken by screaming in the early hours of Christmas Day in the Stamford suburb.

Fire officials are trying to establish the cause of the blaze.

Ms Badger, who developed the Calvin Klein underwear adverts featuring rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg in the 1990s, was treated at Stamford Hospital and discharged on Sunday evening.

This is sad. I hope that she can recover from both the fire destroying the home, and the fire killing her family.