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Cheviot funeral home to be acquired by Spring Grove Funeral Homes Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
An apartment fi re in East Price Hill required nearly 80 fi refi ghters to respond Saturday morning. CINCINNATI FIRE DEPARTMENT
East Price Hill residents evacuated after alert from eighth-grader Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
More than half of the 44 residents displaced by an apartment fi re in East Price Hill Saturday, Feb. 22 are children, offi cials said. Cincinnati Fire Department District Chief Jason Vollmer said crews responded to a fi re in the 2900 block of Warsaw Avenue around 8:40 a.m. The fi re was caused by a child, under the age of 8, with a lighter. Vollmer said a couch sitting outside the building caught on fi re, which then moved up to the roof overhang and to the attic of the building. An eighth grade boy across the street alerted residents to the fi re, Vollmer said. The incident was declared a three-alarm fi re, which brings nearly 80 fi refi ghters to the scene. Vollmer said the fi re was under control in about 90 minutes. No injuries were reported, although a release from the Cincinnati Fire Department described the damage as “extensive.” Two children and one adult were carried out of the eight-unit building, Vollmer said. The rest of the occupants evacuated on their own. Marita Salkowski, communications director for the Greater Cincinnati-Dayton Region of the American Red Cross, said she got a call about the fi re at around 9 a.m. Red Cross members provided disaster assistance at the scene, and later determined that some residents might need a place to stay. With help from the Cincinnati Recreation Commission, Salkowski said the Red Cross was able to set up a shelter at the Price Hill Recreation Center at 959 Hawthorne Avenue. The shelter was set up around noon, complete with food and cots for the
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The American Red Cross is providing a shelter for those displaced by the fi re in East Price Hill. CINCINNATI/MADELINE MITCHELL
night. “Our focus is making sure that the residents are provided the comfort and care that they need to go through this situation,” Salkowski said. Of the 44 displaced residents, Salkowski said approximately 24 of them are children. Salkowski said about six or seven families will stay the night at the shelter. Other families have found hotels, friends or other places to stay. Besides housing and food, the Red Cross has case workers, a nurse and disaster mental health care professionals at the shelter. “When you go through the trauma of losing your home, losing everything, you know, fi rst there are the physical means which you need to take care of, See FIRE, Page 2A
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Cheviot’s Gump-Holt Funeral Home is closing soon, offi cials announced Feb. 22. Spring Grove Funeral Homes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, is acquiring the Gump-Holt property located at 3440 Glenmore Avenue. Spring Grove Funeral Homes confi rmed they will honor and guarantee all preplanned and prefunded funeral arrangements made with Gump-Holt Funeral Homes through any of their other Cincinnati locations. Gump-Holt funeral home families will also have complimentary access to Spring Grove events and grief support programs, the release states. Gump-Holt Funeral Home was founded by John and Olga Gump in the early 1930s. Their daughter Marilyn and her husband, Larry R. Holt, later operated the funeral home for nearly 60 years. Marilyn and Larry Holt’s daughter, Linda Marco, is the current offi cer of Gump-Holt Funeral Home. “We are very excited to have our families in the good hands of the Spring Grove family,” Marco said in the release. “Both companies have a long history of exceptional service to the Cincinnati community.” Spring Grove Funeral Homes is the largest end-of-life services company in Cincinnati, according to the release. The company now operates eight locations across the city. Spring Grove Cemetery was established in 1845 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2007, the release states. The cemetery is on Spring Grove Avenue in Winton Place. The company owns locations in Hyde Park, Springdale, Reading and Sharonville.
Gump-Holt Funeral Home on Glenmore Avenue in Cheviot was founded in the early 1930s. ENQUIRER FILE
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