Boy dies days after Hollywood apartment fire that killed grandma, injured father
A teen boy has died days after firefighters pulled him, his grandmother and his father, who was the only person to survive, from a burning apartment in Hollywood, according to police and a GoFundMe online fundraiser.
Hollywood Fire Rescue and Police were called to the first-floor apartment in the 400 block of South Ocean Drive just after 3 a.m. Wednesday and found a man who was injured outside asking for help, Joann Hussey, a city spokesperson, previously told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Firefighters rescued a woman and child from inside the apartment, police department spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi previously said. All three victims were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where the woman later died.
Bettineschi identified those who died as Patricia Miller and Tom Miller.
Thomas, a 13-year-old boy who had been diagnosed with autism, died on Monday, according to an online fundraiser shared on GoFundMe. Patricia Miller was his grandmother. Anthony Miller, Thomas's father and Patricia Miller's son, survived but remains hospitalized.
Investigators are still working to determine what caused the fire, Bettineschi said Monday.
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