11-year-old disabled girl rescued from Graham house fire dies

An 11-year-old girl rescued from a Graham house fire Friday has died, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said.

The girl was taken from a burning home in the 4300 block of 293rd Street Court by firefighters after they arrived and found the home engulfed in flames.

The girl was unable to escape on her own due to a disability, officials said. She was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she died.

Her 80-year-old grandmother was not home when the fire broke out. She’d briefly left to buy groceries and returned while the fire was raging, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

There is nothing suspicious about the fire, the Sheriff’s department said.

This story was originally published July 21, 2018 at 10:57 AM.