Dozens Of Children Killed In House Fires: Winter Storms And Poverty Generating Death And Hypothermia Nationwide (video and pictures)

by Monica Davis

It’s outrageously cold again. And the most vulnerable of our citizens are bearing the brunt of this punishing cold and the ice and snow covered roads.

A few days ago, authorities in the area located  the body of an elderly man, after a Silver  Alert was issued. And a half hour ago, an elderly man, who livs in the suburbs, called the police, saying his wife had missed both of her appointments, and has not returned home.

In Texas, kids were trapped in schoolbuses, after a blizzard hit the area. Thousands have been stranded on icyhighways, unable to leave theirvehiclesfor safety.  Nationwide, fridgid cold is endangering homeless people, elderly people who can’t afford to heat their homes, and anyone who has to be outside for  longer than is safe.

And then we have the hundreds of winterhouse fires, some of them deadly, as clogged chimneys start fires, smother people with carbon monoxide, and cause deadly fires. Kentucky is mourning the lives of  several fire victims, including infants.

According to the US Fire Administration

On January 29, 2014, 6 residential fire fatalities werereported by news media throughout the United States.

And that is just one day.

It looks like the only ones who can handle the weather are the buffalo.

Map of frigid morning lows experienced across much of the Eastern US down into the Deep South via @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/qBP5WURPLz