Overview
- Officials identified the victim as 21-year-old Kayla Corrigan, a Whitman School senior at Syracuse University.
- Fire broke out just before 5 a.m. on Dec. 24 at 28 Woodworth Road in Needham, and two other adults escaped.
- Preliminary findings indicate the blaze started in the rear of the attached garage and is considered not suspicious, though the cause remains undetermined.
- About 75 firefighters from Needham and surrounding towns fought the four-alarm fire for hours as the large home and two vehicles sustained catastrophic damage.
- A GoFundMe organized for Corrigan’s family had raised more than $146,000 by Sunday morning toward a $150,000 goal.