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4-Alarm Fire Damages Tyler Perry Studios In Atlanta


Posted on May 02, 2012 @ 02:00AM - Add a comment

By Radar Staff

A 4-alarm fire damaged one building at Tyler Perry’s 30-acre studio complex in southwest Atlanta late Tuesday night.

Fire Department spokesman Capt. Jolyon Bundrige says the blaze broke out before 9 p.m. and was extinguished about an hour later. More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene. Fortunately, no one was injured.

Bundrige says the cause of the fire and the amount of damage to the complex was not immediately known.

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The massive complex -- called Tyler Perry Studios -- includes a 200,000-square-foot studio, five sound stages and a 400-seat theater owned by the media mogul.

Perry was at the complex and spoke to fire officials, but did not talk to reporters.

In March, Cee Lo Green performed for donors at a fundraiser for President Obama at the studios.

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A 4-alarm fire damaged one building at Tyler Perry’s 30-acre studio complex in southwest Atlanta late Tuesday night.

Fire Department spokesman Capt. Jolyon Bundrige says the blaze broke out before 9 p.m. and was extinguished about an hour later. More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene. Fortunately, no one was injured.

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Insurance Company Refuses To Pay Out For Madonna Badger Christmas Fire


Posted on Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:00AM - 27 comments

By Radar Staff

An insurance company is refusing to pay out for the tragic Christmas morning blaze that killed five family members of New York fashion executive Madonna Badger, and RadarOnline.com has the details for you.

Utica First Insurance claims in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that Badger's contractor boyfriend, policy holder Michael Borcina, repeatedly lied about details related to the house's construction and his business, Tiberias Construction Inc., over the past five years.

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Father Of Badger Girls Who Died In Christmas Blaze Opens Up About Heartbreaking Loss


Posted on Apr 24, 2012 @ 07:30AM - 3 comments

By Debbie Emery
Radar Reporter

The father of three children who died in a Christmas Eve fire along with their grandparents has spoken out for the first time since the tragedy.

Matthew Badger is the ex-husband of Madonna Badger, the woman who lost her whole family when her Stamford, Connecticut home went up in flames after after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

"I was with them for an entire week in my apartment," the mourning father told Good Morning America on Tuesday, as he recalled the last time he saw his daughters.

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The father of three children who died in a Christmas Eve fire along with their grandparents has spoken out for the first time since the tragedy.

Matthew Badger is the ex-husband of Madonna Badger, the woman who lost her whole family when her Stamford, Connecticut home went up in flames after after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

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Special Forces Soldier Dies Trying To Save His Children From Burning Home


Posted on Mar 06, 2012 @ 10:00AM - 1 comment

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

It should have been a happy time for Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell, who was finally settling into being back at home with his family after serving as a Green Beret in Afghanistan.

Sadly, instead of celebrating his safe return from war, wife Louise Cantrell is now mourning a triple loss after her husband died trying to save their two daughters, Isabella, 6, and Natalia, 4, from their burning home, where they too perished, reported WRAL.com.

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Edward, 36, and Louise, 37, jumped from the second floor of their century-old house in Hope Mills, near Fayetteville in North Carolina, in the early hours of Tuesday morning after an aggressive fire broke out.

As Louise ran to get help from a nearby nursing home, the brave Green Beret wrapped himself in a blanket and rushed back inside to save the girls, but "They never made it out," said Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.

It should have been a happy time for Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell, who was finally settling into being back at home with his family after serving as a Green Beret in Afghanistan.

Sadly, instead of celebrating his safe return from war, wife Louise Cantrell is now mourning a triple loss after her husband died trying to save their two daughters, Isabella, 6, and Natalia, 4, from their burning home, where they too perished, reported WRAL.com.

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Josh Powell’s Sister: Josh Was Protecting His Sons When He Murdered Them


Posted on Feb 09, 2012 @ 08:00AM - 52 comments

By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter

Just days after killing his sons in a vicious hellfire explosion, Josh Powell’s sister is still denying that he had anything to do with his wife’s disappearance, and said he was trying to “protect” the little boys.

In a shocking interview, Alina Powell defends her brother’s murderous actions, during which he took a hatchet and chopped at both Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, before setting the house on fire and killing them all.

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Madonna Badger Tried To Kill Herself Amid Tragic Christmas Fire


Posted on Jan 26, 2012 @ 05:30PM - 35 comments

By Amber Goodhand - Radar Reporter

The woman who lost her three children and parents in a tragic Christmas fire that destroyed her house has tried to take her own life.

Madonna Badger was hospitalized last week after a family member told the NY Daily News the mother purposely injured herself in an effort to escape the pain of losing her family.

"She is okay... She is out [of the hospital] and somewhere safe. It’s just terrible, nobody could really hold up well under the circumstances," the relative said.

Badger's Connecticut home went up in flames on December 25 after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.
Badger and her boyfriend Michael Borcina were the only survivors.

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22 Show Horses Die In Horrifying Barn Fire


Posted on Jan 22, 2012 @ 11:26AM - 15 comments

By Radar Staff

It took only minutes for 22 magnificent show horses to die in a barn fire Saturday.

The disaster took place at famed Heritage Acres in Lafayette, New Jersey.

A neighbor in the bucolic area saw the Heritage barn ablaze and awoke owners, Art and Betty Hahn, both in their 70s.

It took only minutes for 22 magnificent show horses to die in a barn fire Saturday.

The disaster took place at famed Heritage Acres in Lafayette, New Jersey.

A neighbor in the bucolic area saw the Heritage barn ablaze and awoke owners, Art and Betty Hahn, both in their 70s.

The roof on the football field-size barn collapsed before fire fighter arrived. “It burned right down to the ground,” Art Hahn said.

The horses were all show winners, sent by their owners from around the country to be trained for jumping and dressage competitions all over the East Coast.

“I don’t know if everyone understands the bond between horse people and a horses,” trainer Marion Georgiev told The Star-Ledger.  “There are so many thing you learn from them.

 

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“They only care about how you treat them, and if you make a mistake they forgive you. And when you ride a horse, that bond grows even more because they allow you to do something you can’t do yourself.”

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Madonna Badger Questioned By Police About Christmas Fire That Killed Her Three Daughters


Posted on Jan 14, 2012 @ 07:11PM - 10 comments

By Radar Staff

Madonna Badger has been questioned extensively by police for the first time since losing her three daughters and her parents in a tragic Christmas fire.

The advertising executive was interviewed on Thursday night, Stamford police sergeant Paul Guzda confirmed although he would not reveal the nature of the conversations.

The inferno in Badger’s Connecticut home took the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

As RadarOnline previous reported, Badger had to be physically restrained as she desperately tried to re-enter the house in the early hours of the fateful day in an effort to save her girls.

Her boyfriend Michael Borcina, who also survived the fire, had told officials that he put Yule log embers in a bag of discarded ash in an entryway which is thought to have been where the inferno started.

Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown previously told RadarOnline that it is an ongoing investigation but that “the preliminary cause was accidental and that is the way it will be expected to stay.”

Borcina's constructin company was handling renovation work on Badger's recently purchased $1.7 million waterfront home.

Sgt. Guzda says police plan on interviewing Borcina soon too as officials want to find out if the large home had working smoke detectors.

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has said that Borcina nor his company had the right paperwork to conduct construction work in the state but did not say if they were going to launch an investigation.

Police have been patient in speaking to Badger while she had some time to grieve and also attend the memorial services for her five family members.

During her eulogy last week she cried in front of the 700-strong congregation, “Why my children? Why my parents?”

She was comforted by Borcina and the children’s father Matthew Badger at the service.

 

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‘Hysterical’ Madonna Badger Battled Firefighters To Get Back Into Burning House To Rescue 'Her Babies'


Posted on Jan 10, 2012 @ 06:00PM - 17 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

America was touched by the heartbreaking images of Madonna Badger sobbing as she said her final goodbyes to her family at the funerals of her three children and parents last week, and now RadarOnline.com has exclusive details of the devoted mom's fight to save them from the deadly fire that destroyed her Connecticut home.

"She was pretty hysterical and extremely emotional," Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown of the Stamford Fire Department told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. "She was trying to get back into the house, they had to physically stop her from going into the house and back up the ladder."

As RadarOnline previously reported, investigators believe the blaze started from yule log embers that Badger and her boyfriend Michael Borcina placed in the back foyer in a bag.

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Mourning Madonna Badger ‘Trying To Find Peace,’ Says Family Member


Posted on Jan 07, 2012 @ 04:00AM - 32 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

The memorial for Madonna Badger's three children and their grandparents is giving a small degree of closure to the mourning mother, RadarOnline.com has learned.

"It is a heartbreaking thing," a family member exclusively told RadarOnline.com, the day after the multiple funeral service.

"I hope that she has found some peace. Maybe this can help bring some closure.”

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