KENTUCKY STATE POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO DEADLY MOBILE HOME FIRE IN ROWAN COUNTY
IN SEPARATE CASE, KENTUCKY STATE POLICE ARREST VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER IN ROWAN COUNTY FOR ARSON AFTER WIFE REVEALED SHE WAS WITH HIM AT THE FIRE, MAY BE LINKED TO AT LEAST THREE OTHER FIRES
THE FATAL FIRE SCENE REPORTED DURING EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, ON 2270 CHRISTY CREEK ROAD IN MOREHEAD, KENTUCKY; IN ROWAN COUNTY, THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF STANLEY ERWIN, 62, OF MOREHEAD.
The fire, which left extensive damage to the mobile home, was extinguished by the Morehead Fire Department.
When Kentucky State Police Post 8 troopers arrived shortly after, the Morehead firefighter crews told the troopers that a body was found inside the mobile home after the fire was extinguished.
The body was identified as Stanley Erwin, 62, who was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:40 A.M., by Rowan County Coroner John Northcutt.
Coroner Northcutt says that Stanley Erwin’s wife and another family member were at the home at the time of the fire, but they were able to escape with no injuries. Coroner Northcutt also stated that a person who was camping close by was involved as the fire was burning but that they also were not injured.
Kentucky State Police Post 8 were assisted on the scene by the Rowan County Coroner’s Office and Morehead Fire Department, Elliottville Fire Department, Hayes Crossing/Haldeman Fire Departments, Rowan County Sheriff Department, and Rowan County EMS.
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KENTUCKY STATE POLICE ARREST ROWAN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AFTER THE MAN WAS ACCUSED OF ARSON
A HUMAN ‘FIREFLY’: EDWARD STEPHENS III, 21, OF MOREHEAD, KENTUCKY; WHO IS A VOLUNTEER FIGHTER, WAS ARRESTED ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 BY KY. STATE POLICE ON CHARGE OF ARSON, AFTER HIS WIFE SQUEALED TO TROOPERS THAT SHE WAS WITH HIM WHEN HE SET THE FIRE HE LATER REPORTED. STATE POLICE ARE NOW LOOKING INTO THREE OTHER FIRES REPORTED IN THE LAST YEAR BY EDWARD STEPHENS, RAISING THE POSSIBILITY THAT HE MAY BE A SERIAL ARSONIST.
A Rowan County, Kentucky man who is a volunteer firefighter was arrested by the Kentucky State Police after he is currently facing an arson charge.
Firefighting crews were called out during Thursday, October 10, about a fire at a home in the 3000 block of Open Fork Road in Morehead, KY.
Firefighters told Kentucky State Police Post 8 in Morehead that the home had been vacant for years.
KSP Post 8 troopers reported a caller told their investigators that a man, who was identified as Edward Stephens III, 21, of Morehad, KY., had messaged them, and had asked them to report the fire, saying it would look suspicious for him to report the fire because he worked for the local fire department and that he had reported three other fires in the last year.
KSP Post 8 troopers later contacted Edward Stephens’ wife, who confirmed that she was with her husband when he started the fire.
Troopers subsequently arrested Edward Stephens III on the charge of *ARSON, 2ND DEGREE.
Edward Stephens was transported to and booked into the Rowan County Detention Center in Morehead; where he has since been released from the jail after posting his bond.
Kentucky State Police are continuing their investigation into this arson case, and other fire cases, including the past three other fires that were reported by Edward Stephens
