First Death Reported from the Napa Quake

A 65-year-old woman who suffered a head injury when a television struck her during last month's earthquake in California's wine country has died — the first death attributed to the magnitude-6.0 quake, sheriff's officials said.

Laurie Anne Thompson was at her Napa home during the Aug. 24 earthquake when she was hit, according to the Napa County Sheriff's Office. She did not go to the hospital until the next day when she felt dizzy and experienced a decline in mental function.

Sheriff's officials said she died Friday at a hospital of an intracranial hemorrhage.

"Her condition continued to deteriorate over time and, unfortunately, she passed away," Sheriff's Capt. Doug Pike said.

The earthquake has not claimed any other lives, but left scores of people injured, among them a 13-year-old boy who broke his pelvis in several places when part of a chimney collapsed on him.

It was the strongest quake to hit the San Francisco Bay area since a magnitude-6.9 quake in 1989.

The quake was centered near the city of Napa and broke water mains and gas lines and sparked gas-fed fires that destroyed several mobile homes. The worst damage and disruption was confined to downtown Napa, where a post office, library and a 141-room hotel were among 150 homes and buildings deemed unsafe to occupy.