Hsieh died the day after Thanksgiving at a hospital in Bridgeport, Conn. Authorities ruled his death was an accident caused by complications from smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n
Nine days earlier, fire crews pulled Hsieh out of a storage shed with smoke coming from it at a waterfront home in New London, Conne.<\/p>\n
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Voices can be heard on emergency calls at about 3:30 am on Nov. 18, saying someone was \u201cbarricaded\u201d or \u201ctrapped\u201d in the attached shed. Firefighters broke into the shed to rescue Hsieh. He was unresponsive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
After emergency crews took Hsieh to a hospital in New London, he was airlifted to the Connecticut Burn Center in Bridgeport, about 65 miles west of New London.<\/p>\n
Hsieh had been in New London visiting reported girlfriend Rachael Brown and a brother. The $1.3-million house belongs to Brown, a Las Vegas cellist who began working at Zappos in 2004 as one of the company’s first 100 employees. She had recently moved to Utah with Hsieh, according to news reports.<\/p>\n
Hsieh, who would have turned 47 on Dec. 12, had expressed plans the day before the fire to enter a rehabilitation clinic in Hawaii, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\nDowntown Las Vegas Revival<\/h2>\n Authorities this week continued to investigate the cause of the fire in New London<\/p>\n
As this continues, a judge in Las Vegas has given Hsieh\u2019s family control of his estate, according to KLAS-TV<\/em>. The tech guru\u2019s fortune was estimated at $840 million.<\/p>\nThe family sought control of his financial information and social media accounts. The court has required the family to compile a list of Hsieh\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n
Hsieh, a Harvard University graduate with a computer science degree, is credited with spending millions to transform a neglected area in downtown Las Vegas near the casino district.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months before his death, Las Vegas investor Tony Hsieh was hospitalized when an anonymous 911 call indicated he was threatening to hurt himself, according to published accounts. On June 30, a male caller told a 911 dispatcher that Hsieh was smashing things at his Park City, Utah home and making threats about hurting himself, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":158197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16693],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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