Victims in Chaparral fire identified

CHAPARRAL, N.M. (AP) - Medical investigators have identified a toddler and two other people who died in a mobile home fire in southern New Mexico.

The victims were 20-year-old Elena Diaz; her brother, 17-year-old Rodolfo Diaz; and her infant daughter, 14-month-old Eileen Millan.

All three were found inside a back bedroom of the trailer. Authorities say bars on the windows and intense flames and smoke in a hallway prevented their escape and kept firefighters from rescuing them during Wednesday night's blaze.

A man living on the opposite end of the trailer escaped without injuries.

Investigators say the fire was caused by improperly spliced wires that provided power to the home.