Trailer home fire kills 3-year-old

Brittany Price said she was barely dressed, her feet were freezing and she was choking on smoke when she frantically called 911 for help yesterday morning.

Worse, her children, ages 3 and 1, and a friend were still inside the trailer home south of Marion as smoke and flames poured out.

My house is on fire. I cant breathe, Price screamed into the phone. My house is up in flames. My kids are inside. I can hear them screaming.

The dispatcher, apparently misunderstanding the call from the Fountain Place Mobile Home Park, 3068 Marion-Waldo Rd., relayed the call to the Pleasant Township Fire Department as a woman having trouble breathing.

Two minutes later, Price, 23, said, You dont understand, my house is literally up in flames."

Your house is on fire? asked the dispatcher, who changed the assignment to a working fire with a trapped child.

Officials removed the wrapped body of 3-year-old Brayden Blevins about three hours later.

Rescuers took Price to Ohio State Universitys Wexner Medical Center, where she was treated for smoke inhalation and released. Brian Price, 1, was treated at Nationwide Childrens Hospital, which would not release his condition. Cheyenne Smith, 19, was in fair condition at Wexner Medical Center with serious cuts to her hands. She is to have surgery today, said Pleasant Township Fire Chief Clint Canterbury.

The victim was found in a bedroom, where it appears the fire started, Canterbury said. There were no space heaters, and the wiring was intact, investigators reported.

The home was being rented and had no working smoke detectors, officials said.

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