The house of a judge from South Carolina caught on Sunday, hospitalizing three and destroying the house.
The judge of the Diane Goodstein Circuit Court was walking to her dogs through the beach in Edisto Island, SC, one hour south of Charleston, when the fire began, according to the officials. Her husband, former state senator Arnold Goodstein, her son, Arnold Goodstein III, and another occupant were forced to jump from the building on fire from a raised first floor to escape the fire, authorities said.
The three occupants were rescued by kayak of the backyard of the house due to the swampy terrain in the area, said the Colleton County Fire rescue. An occupant was transferred by plane to the Hospital of the University of Medicine of South Carolina in Charleston and the other two were taken there by land transport, according to the Colleton County fire.
The current condition of the victims is unknown.
The fire consumes the houses of the judge of the Circuit Court of South Carolina, Diane Goodstein, on Sunday on Edist Island.
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The Supreme Court of South Carolina said in a statement that the Division of Application of the Law of South Carolina (SLED) responded to the scene and is investigating the cause of the fire. “The local law members have been alerted and have been asked to provide additional patrols and security. The judicial branch will remain in close communication with SLED,” the statement added.
“Sled’s investigation is active and continuous,” the agency told ABC News.
Last month, Goodstein blocked the Electoral Commission of the South Carolina to provide the Department of Justice with millions of voters who included personal names, addresses, driver’s license numbers and social security numbers, According to judicial documents.
President Trump issued a Executive order In March, it prohibits non -citizens from registering to the vote, which leads to the Department of Justice to request information from more than 3.3 million voters registered in South Carolina. Goldstein’s decision, however, was reversed a few days later by the State Supreme Court, According to judicial documents.
Goodstein was first chosen for his circuit court in 1998, According to the Judicial Branch of South Carolina.
