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Aromatherapy oil sparks deadly residential fire

Aromatherapy oil over an open flame sparked a residential blaze that claimed three lives and left behind two charred corpses on Sunday, according to the Chinese-language Apply Daily.

Taipei County police officer Lin Yung-sheng (林雍昇), 23, had just celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary with his wife on Friday. On Saturday, the couple lit an "essential oil" candle Saturday and settled on their bed in their small, one-story house in Taipei County.

The candle sparked a blaze that quickly consumed their two-room house as they slept. Lin's wife, 31-year-old Tang Yu-hsun (唐玉薰), was six-months pregnant.

"We spend our careers saving others. Why, when my brother was dying, were we helpless to save him?!"

Lin's younger brother, Lin Yin-cheng (林胤承), was quoted as saying. Lin Yin-cheng is also a police officer in Taichung County, while their father serves in the Coast Guard Administration, the report said.

Around 2am on Sunday morning, Lin Yu-hsun's neighbors reported the fire at as smoke billowed from the white-washed house. After extinguishing the blaze, firefighters discovered Lin Yin-cheng and his wife dead in the gutted house, with second to third-degree burns covering 95 percent of their bodies, the report said.
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