Case #80-41260

At 1:45 in the morning on June 13, 1980, a fire broke out on the upper floor stairway at the Hamilton Hotel on the 1000 block of SW 3^rd Avenue. The Portland Fire Bureau responded and evacuated the building. Firefighters found Kim Dip Chin, a 69-year-old woman, seated in a chair in her room not breathing. CPR was administered and she was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy revealed that she had died as the result of probable smoke inhalation and asphyxiation.

Kim Chin was a permanent resident of the hotel. She was retired and had managed a different hotel. Arson investigators discovered that the fire had began on the landing of the third floor in the stairwell and accelerants were used.

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