Second Grader Dies In East Toledo Fire

March 9, 2007 Ohio - An 8-year-old second grader died yesterday after a fire started by an electric heater spread thick, heavy smoke throughout her family's East Toledo house. Abby Kerschner was the second child killed in a city fire this year. Her death occurred just hours after eight children died in a blaze in New York City, and less than two months after a 4-year-old boy died in a duplex fire on Floyd Street in central Toledo. As Abby's family mourns, another central-city mother monitors the ...