The authorities of South Carolina said on Monday that they were investigating a fire on a vacation island during the weekend which had burned a house belonging to a state judge and her husband, a former state senator, injuring at least three people.
The house belongs to Diane Goodstein, a short circuit judge, and her husband, Arnold Goodstein, according to the files of the County County assessors.
Mr. Goodstein bought the house in 2019 and in 2023, he transferred the act to himself and his wife. Mr. GOODSTEIN, a Democrat, received a bronze star twice for his service during the Vietnam War.
In a decision last month, Judge Goodstein temporarily prevented the South Carolina from giving the US justice to the US justice database.
An voter had continued the State, arguing that the publication of this sensitive personal information would violate the law of the State and its constitutional rights. The Supreme South Carolina Court reversed the order of the Goodstein judge.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The division of state police said it was investigating.
A fire station serving Edisto Island, St. Paul’s Fire District, said on social networks that its members had responded to a fire on Saturday at home, which overlooks a marshes, near a roadway connecting Edisto Beach to Edisto Island.
The island is off the southern Carolina coast and near Charleston and Hilton Head Island.
The occupants escaped by jumping from a “high first floor” and had to be saved from the backyard in kayaks, said the district.
Images of the fire showed a house by the water engulfed in the flames and a thick plume of smoke rising in the sky.
At least three people were injured in the fire, said Captain Kc Cambell by Collecton County Fire Rescue. He said that three people, who were not publicly identified, were hospitalized with injuries.
Two were taken by ambulance, he said in an interview on Monday. A third person was transported by plane.
All three were treated at the South Carolina Medical University, he said. Their conditions were not immediately available.
Susan C. Beachy And Mattathias Schwartz contributed research.
