Man Killed In Pasadena House Fire Identified As 92-Year-Old Homeowner

PASADENA, MD — The resident killed in the Pasadena house fire on Forsythia Lane on March 10 has been positively identified, Anne Arundel County Fire Department reports.

The deceased was identified as Guy Richard Ringler, the 92-year-old owner and one of the two occupants of the Forsythia Lane home, fire officials said.

The other resident rescued by firefighters remains hospitalized at the Burn Center at John Hopkins Bayview Hospital.

The fatal fire was determined as accidental, and the probable cause was ignition of combustibles by smoking materials, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire and Explosives Investigation Unit.

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Investigators determined there was no working smoke alarms inside the home. A smoke alarm was located, but had no battery in it and was more than ten years old and had exceeded its useful life.

Fire officials estimate that the fire caused approximately $80,000 worth of damage.

Just after 11:30 p.m. March 10, neighbors in the 4400 block of Forsythia Lane called 9-1-1 reporting a dwelling fire with possible occupants trapped. The callers said that two residents lived in the home and were not accounted for, fire officials said.

The first arriving firefighters reported fire from the windows of the living room located in the front of the one-story single family house. They immediately entered the home to search for the victims, and located and removed the unidentified resident from the kitchen near the rear of the home.

The resident is estimated to be in his 50s, and was in cardiac arrest when he was removed from the kitchen, fire officials said. Firefighters and paramedics resuscitated him and transported him to the Burn Center at John Hopkins Bayview with critical, life-threatening injuries.

Firefighters quickly extinguished a fire in the living room and located Ringler, who was declared deceased on the scene, fire officials said.

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