Victim of Fatal Meriden Fire Identified

MERIDEN, CT - Elizabeth Rodie Jones, 59, has been identified as the woman who died in the early morning fire on Pettit Drive on June 3, according to fire officials.

Her husband, Leonidas Jones, survived the fire but could not get to her before firefighters arrived, reports the Meriden Record-Journal. Emergency personnel were able to pull her out of the home but she was pronounced dead a short while later at MidState Medical Center.

A fundraiser has been set up by the Meriden Council of Neighborhoods and Meriden Police Department Neighborhood Initiative Unit to benefit Rodie Jones’ family on Wednesday, June 29, at the Hunters Ambulance Training Facility on West Main Street.

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