THE COUPLE. YEAH. HEY, GOOD EVENING TO YOU, KRISTIN. ANDREW AND THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE TELLING ME THAT THEY JUST PLAN TO KEEP THE LEGACY THAT CHARMAINE AND LARRY ANDERSON BUILT IN THIS BELTZHOOVER HOME. A LIVE FOREVER. LOSING BOTH THEIR MATRIARCH AND PATRIARCH IN THE PLACE. THE WHOLE FAMILY CALLED HOME AS DEVASTATING FLAMES TORE THROUGH ITS WALLS EARLY THIS MORNING. THEY’LL BE GREATLY, GREATLY, GREATLY MISSED. MY HEART IS BROKE. LANIECE ANDERSON IS ONE OF THREE CHILDREN BELONGING TO 76 YEAR OLD LARRY AND 74 YEAR OLD CHARMAINE ANDERSON, WHO CALLED THIS BELTZHOOVER HOUSE HOME SINCE 1972. THEY DIED TOGETHER 57 YEARS, ONE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THE OTHER. IT WAS AROUND 540 THIS MORNING. KRISTA WASHINGTON WAS CALLED BY NEIGHBORS TO TELL HIM FLAMES WERE ENGULFING HIS GRANDPARENTS. CEDAR HURST STREET HOME. FIREFIGHTERS SAY THEY GOT TO THE HOUSE WITHIN FOUR MINUTES, BUT NEITHER LARRY OR CHARMAINE SURVIVED. FOR THEM TO GO OUT TOGETHER, WE COULDN’T HAD IT NO OTHER WAY, HONESTLY. NOW, AFTER REMEMBERING THEIR LEGACY AND THE PERFECT NOTES THEY HIT WHEN IT CAME TO LOVE AND FAMILY, MY GRANDFATHER PLAYED THE GUITAR ALL MY LIFE, PLAYED THE BASS, THE PIANO. MY GRANDMOTHER PLAYED THE BASS. ALSO. SO SHE WAS A SINGER. HE HAD A GROUP FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS. THEY TOURED AROUND. THEY LOVED HER FAMILY. THEY LOVED HER COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, THIS WAS ALWAYS A HOUSE THAT ANYBODY COULD PULL UP TO AND GET LOVE BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS GAVE THEIR LOVE TO EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY. IT’S A LEGACY THEY LEFT A LEGACY THAT I’M PROUD OF. I’M PROUD TO CARRY ON A LEGACY OF LOVE, FAMILY AND MUSIC. IT HELPS TO KNOW THAT THEY’RE TOGETHER FOR SURE. SO WE’LL GET THROUGH THIS. WE HAVE COMMUNITY, WE HAVE FAMILY AND FRIENDS. AND SO WE’LL MAKE IT HAPPEN. AND AND THE FAMILY HAS BEEN OUTSIDE ALL DAY. I HEAR THEM REMINISCING, SHARING SOME STORIES. WE’RE BACK HERE LIVE AT THE THE NOW CHARRED HOUSE. I SHOULD SAY. YOU COULD SEE THAT HEAVY DAMAGE REALLY KIND OF ON THAT SECOND FLOOR. IT’S UNCLEAR IF THE HOME IS REPAIRABLE AT THIS POINT. WE DO KNOW THAT FROM PUBLIC SAFETY THAT INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE. BUT IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE SUSPICIOUS. AND ONE LAST THING I WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH IS THAT TOMORROW WOULD HAVE BEEN LARRY ANDERSON’S 77TH BIRTHDAY. LIVE FROM PITTSBURGH’S BELTZHOO
'One wouldn't have been without the other': Couple together for over 50 years dies in house fire
One person died at the scene, another died at the hospital
Updated: 10:55 AM EDT Jul 5, 2023
A man and woman died in a house fire in Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover neighborhood early Monday morning.Firefighters responded just before 5:40 a.m. to the 400 block of Cedarhurst Street. The first crews arrived within four minutes. The family said the victims are 74-year-old Charmaine Anderson and 76-year-old Larry Anderson. Larry would've celebrated his 77th birthday on Tuesday. "For them to go out together, we couldn't have had it another way," said Christo Washington, the oldest grandson. Washington described his grandparent's home as the music house, adding that many of his family members share the same passion for music as Charmaine and Larry did."You hear the name Anderson, you're going to know this is the music house. All of us, top to bottom, sing, dance, music, all of it. We got it from this house," Washington said. "My grandfather played the guitar, played the bass, the piano (and) my grandmother played the bass also, she was a singer. They had a group for years and years and years, they toured around."One victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Another later died at the hospital, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety."They died together, 57 years. One wouldn't have been without the other," said Lenise Anderson, the victims' oldest daughter. "It helps to know they're together. They'll be greatly, greatly, greatly missed. But they're happy, and they're together – that's all that matters."
A man and woman died in a house fire in Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover neighborhood early Monday morning.
Firefighters responded just before 5:40 a.m. to the 400 block of Cedarhurst Street. The first crews arrived within four minutes.
The family said the victims are 74-year-old Charmaine Anderson and 76-year-old Larry Anderson. Larry would've celebrated his 77th birthday on Tuesday.
"For them to go out together, we couldn't have had it another way," said Christo Washington, the oldest grandson.
Washington described his grandparent's home as the music house, adding that many of his family members share the same passion for music as Charmaine and Larry did.
"You hear the name Anderson, you're going to know this is the music house. All of us, top to bottom, sing, dance, music, all of it. We got it from this house," Washington said. "My grandfather played the guitar, played the bass, the piano (and) my grandmother played the bass also, she was a singer. They had a group for years and years and years, they toured around."
One victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Another later died at the hospital, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety.
"They died together, 57 years. One wouldn't have been without the other," said Lenise Anderson, the victims' oldest daughter. "It helps to know they're together. They'll be greatly, greatly, greatly missed. But they're happy, and they're together – that's all that matters."
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