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Summit Avenue, Reading, PA

Reading Officials ID Teen Victim, Reveal Cause Of Deadly Fire Reading Officials ID Teen Victim, Reveal Cause Of Deadly Fire
Reading Officials ID Teen Victim, Reveal Cause Of Deadly Fire Authorities in Reading have identified the 13-year-old girl killed in a two-alarm house fire early on Saturday, Jan. 21.  Empressi Martin was sleeping on the third floor at 630 Summit Avenue when the fire began just after 4 a.m., the city Fire Department said in a statement. Her cause of death was determined to be smoke inhalation, they added.  Firefighters also identified the 56-year-old man who was badly burned in the blaze as David Martin. He was rescued from the home's basement and remains at Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest in critical condition with smoke inhalation and burns,…