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The mother who lost her three daughters and parents in a Christmas Day fire in Connecticut has tried to take her own life, the New York Daily News reported.
According to the newspaper, Madonna Badger, one of only two survivors of the fire at her home in Stamford, was hospitalized last week after injuring herself in an attempt to kill herself, a relative confirmed to the Daily News.
Eduardo Munoz / Reuters, file
Matthew and Madonna Badger cry as they await the arrival of their daughters' caskets for their funeral service at Saint Thomas Church in New York on Jan. 5, 2012. A raging Christmas-morning house fire that killed Madonna Badger's elderly parents and her three young daughters appears to have been caused by embers from a fireplace.
The suicide attempt was first reported by CBS 2 Wednesday night. According to?the report,?Badger ?is now in a safe place, surrounded by family and long-time friends.?
Authorities established that embers in a bag of discarded ashes started the blaze in Stamford a month ago, killing 10-year-old Lilly and 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah and their grandparents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson.
More than 500 mourners joined the grieving mother about three weeks ago at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan for a somber funeral.
"My girls are in my heart," Badger said. "They're right here. And that's where they live now."
Badger and her boyfriend,?Michael Borcina, the contractor who was renovating the Stamford home, escaped the blaze without serious injury.
According to CBS 2, construction workers told police the alarms and extinguishers had been taken out of the house and stored in the garage, as painters began working on the interior.
Matthew Badger, the girls? father, hired private investigators to look into the circumstances surrounding the fatal blaze, CBS 2 reported.
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