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The 4-year-old child who was killed when a Pleasant Valley manufactured home caught fire earlier this month has not yet been positively identified, officials confirmed.
El Dorado County Fire Protection District Capt. Mike Pott told the Mountain Democrat Monday that county officials are still waiting on DNA evidence from the state Department of Justice before confirming the identification of the boy.
According to Pott, the DNA evidence would likely be available in six to eight weeks.
“It’s the DNA evidence,” he said. “That’s why it’s taking so long.”
Details of the Sept. 8 blaze remain scarce.
Pott did reveal, though, that investigators have yet to find evidence of working smoke detectors inside the manufactured home.
“It was pretty damaged in there,” he said.
Authorities had previously described the fire as intense. The level of damage to the manufactured home’s interior would likely make determining its point of origin difficult.
Fire crews responded to the Pleasant Valley home at 4740 Viewpoint Drive shortly after midnight on Sept. 8.
Three of the home’s four occupants were standing outside of the residence and told firefighters that the young boy was still inside of the house.
Responders were unable to reach the child in time and found him deceased in a bedroom.
In the days following the fire, the names of the boy’s mother, Jennifer Ewing, 27, and her boyfriendm, Arturo Canales, 28, were made public.
The other survivor, previously identified as the boy’s grandfather, has not been named.
On Thursday investigators from both the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department and El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office were at the scene of the fire.
Because of the child’s death, officials were treating the residence as a crime scene, which is standard procedure, according to Pott.
In the meantime, Pott said county officials will continue to investigate the fire as well as the boy’s death.
“We’ll just continue to talk to people, continue to piece everything together,” he said.
E-mail Jim Ratajczakat jratajczak@mtdemocrat.net or call 530-344-5069.
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guy.October 22, 2011 - 10:08 am
This is too sad........... JN1105636 JENNIFER CHRISTINE EWING F Facility Date Booked Status Age at Booking Arresting Agency PV 20111021 INCUSTODY 27 EDSO First 5 Charges Misd or Felony? Description Bail Amount For Each Charge 273A(A) F CHILD CRUELTY:POS INJ/DTH $100,000.00
JusticeOctober 22, 2011 - 9:40 pm
What is sad? definitly sad about the child dying but not the mom being booked!!!
HangtownOctober 23, 2011 - 8:10 am
How can you have the mother alive and not know the name of the child. What is going on here? And where is Pantywaist and CPS? Was there a history here?
guy.October 23, 2011 - 9:47 am
Hangtown....check the comments on the original article on Sept. 8th reporting the house fire.
family friendOctober 26, 2011 - 9:48 pm
you know what you guys back off ok she just lost a kid and is now in prison for something she had no control over maybe if you knew the whole story then your wouldnt be saying this stuff but i know how you ppl are you dont care about facts you just need and want someone to blame, why blame her and not grandpa or her bf huh why?
fran duchampOctober 26, 2011 - 10:35 pm
My grandson had wiped out on his bike several days before this fire--I meet this beautiful little boy that has passed on--there at the hospital. He had cut his arm and waited in the ER with us--waiting for his turn. He and my grandson watched movies while waiting. This beautiful innocent child had people smiling and laughing--he was friendly, funny and very very bright. He was a talker--and for being so very young--he was very articulate. I want this child to be remembered and not get lost in the trial. I remember his name and how old he was--because he came right up to me to ask if he could talk to my grandson (my grandson had messed up his face pretty bad) to make him feel better. When my daughter-in -law--told me of his death--I was so upset. I had only known him for a couple hours--but in that couple of hours he made my family feel better. Look back over the remarks above--hate does not do this little person any justice. I met the mother that night and the gentleman that the child sat with--I cant tell you any thing about them. The child was the light--he was the love you gravitated towards. If you are a family member, than talk about him...he deserves to be noted and remembered for a beautiful soul. Everyone that night in the ER were delighted to have met him...he had told my grandson how he had wiped out on the gravel with his Christmas bike--so it had been put away for awhile--but he promised my grandson that he would ware a helmet when ever he did ride it in the future. I am still so upset..how could he be gone. Please, dont let a trial allow this child to be placed in the background. Let the courts do their job. I am not any ones judge--just a momentary friend in a amazing child's life. Good bye little one.
devestated and closeOctober 27, 2011 - 11:15 am
well fran he was and is everything you said and more, I mean we all loved that little boy like he was our own and well we wont ever forget it. when him and his mom came down to visit and stayed with me and my aunt and her kids it was the best time and to this day my 3 and 4 year old cousins still talk about things that happened while they were here like they always played on the trampoline and always ran in the yard and played with the animals bash and the 4 kids here were always having a good time and sure he was a little shit but you know what everyone loved that kid and will never forget him. It does suck big time what happened to bash and well these ppl here dont even care to know the whole story about what happened they just want and need someone to blame and well honestly i keep reading about how ppl keep saying jen is a bad mom and she needs to burn in hell and s*** and it makes me wanna cry cause i know how good of a mom she was and is, i dont have any kids of my own but i know how devastated i would be if something was to ever happen to any of these 4 kids that i babysit for i would go so crazy. I remember babysitting bash one time and he was supposed to be going potty but instead he decided to flush things down the toilet lol it was always so much fun with that kid, it's a shame the fun had to end so soon. I will never forget you Bash and neither will anyone is this house especially your girlfriend Sadie-4 and Baylee-3 LOL. LOVE U BASH