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FRIDLEY, MINNESOTA: A fire in the parking lot of a store killed one of the mother’s children and “permanently damaged” the other. The mother is suing Walmart because of this.
On August 6, 2019, when Essie McKenzie went to the Walmart Supercenter in Fridley, Minnesota, her girls were sleeping in the back of her minivan. Court documents say that McKenzie took her mother to the airport, where the children, ages 6 and 9, were tired from having to wake up early.
The mother let them sleep because it was around 6 a.m. and she thought they would be safe while she went shopping. Court records say that when she got back to the parking lot a few minutes later, the minivan was on fire. As she ran toward the fire, first responders stopped her. She waited and watched until firefighters finally got the girls out of the van. The fires had an effect on them. The younger one had a heart attack and was brought back to life in the parking lot. She was then taken to the hospital, where she died. Her older sister lived, but she was badly burned and will always look different.
In the lawsuit against Walmart, which was filed on June 6, McKenzie’s lawyers say that the company has a well-known policy that lets people camp out in parking lots overnight without keeping an eye on them to help keep other customers safe. “Walmart encouraged and let a dangerous situation happen on its property,” the lawsuit says. (Walmart) made the danger worse by not having enough people watching how its parking lot was used as a campground.” Investigators say that a camp stove was the cause of the fire. Documents show that a man from California and his wife were living in their 2005 Dodge Caravan as they drove across the country. They decided to stop at the Walmart in Fridley and set up camp there.
Reports say that the man used a camp stove to make breakfast the morning of the fire. After he finished it, he put it in the back of their car without waiting for it to cool. He then backed out of the parking lot and into a spot closer to the store’s entrance, next to McKenzie’s minivan. According to documents, when the man walked into the business, the camp stove started a fire in his car. His wife tried to put out the fire, but she couldn’t. Newsweek says that their car caught fire, and the fire spread quickly to McKenzie’s van.
Kare11 says that the man got 120 days in jail and three years in 2020 after pleading guilty to two counts of careless fire that caused serious bodily harm. The lawyers for McKenzie are now asking for at least $75,000 in damages. Randy Hargrove, a spokesman for Walmart, told McClatchy News, “Our sympathies remain with the friends and family affected by this tragic event even though it happened three years ago.” He also said that the company “plans to defend the company and will respond in Court to the Complaint as appropriate.”