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Girl Dies In Bridgewater, Virginia, House Fire – A Second Victim Is Severely Burned

According to DNRonline.com, reporting out of Harrisburg, Virginia, a house fire in Bridgewater, VA, left one man injured and a woman dead. How the fire started is still under investigation, according to Rockingham County authorities, although firefighters said Tuesday that they were sure the blaze was accidental.

The Main Street fire began before 7:30 am, when firefighters and emergency workers from Bridgewater, Harrisburg, and Weyers Cave responded to the call. By the time they arrived, the fire and consumed multiple rooms of the rented house and was in advanced stages that proved too dangerous for firefighters to enter the premise.

The fire was contained by Firefighters in roughly a half-hour.

The primary renters, Johnny and Terry Cardoso, had left the house for work earlier in the morning and were not present when the fire started. Their son, 20-year-old Johnny Cardoso Jr., and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Nicole Nicholson, were asleep in the house, having finished a joint shift at Taco Bell together earlier that morning.

Johnny Cardoso Jr. was seen staggering from the house with burns. Nicolson was killed in the fire. Her body was recovered from an upstairs bedroom of the house after the blaze was contained and the house was found safe to enter. Cardoso Jr. was rushed to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, where his condition has been upgraded from serious to fair.

The Cardoso family had lived in the house for more than a decade.

A neighbor, Judy Galang, saw the fire and the ensuing commotion.

"It was very crazy," Galang said. "It happened really quickly but a lot of people came to help."

Lt. Mike Armstrong, assistant fire marshal with Rockingham County Fire and Rescue, told reporters that although they are still unsure of the cause of the fire, it probably began in the front, left-side room on the first floor.

"It's accidental. We do know that for sure," he said.

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