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| According to the police, the fire started around 2:30 am. (Photo: AP) |
10 relatives, including three children, were killed in a fire in the house of a firefighter in the US state of Pennsylvania, while the firefighter reached the spot and found out that the fire had broken out in his house.
Sources, citing the police.
It is said that the incident took place late at night in Nescopeck area.
The dead children are five, six and seven years old, while the adults are between 20 and 79 years old, whose post mortem will be conducted tomorrow.
Harold Baker, who works as a firefighter in the area, rushed to the house which was engulfed in flames when he was informed of the incident.
The mother-in-law and sister-in-law were there with their children and apart from swimming, there was a summer party planned.
According to them, there were 13 dogs in the two-storey house and feared that hardly any of them would be left.
He said that when he received a report on the telephone that a house was on fire and the address given was another house nearby, however, as his fire brigade vehicle approached, he realized that it was his house.
"I wanted to go in and save my family," Baker said in a sad tone.
After arriving at the scene, he saw the house in flames and tried to get inside, but the doors were locked from the inside. yelled at her son and started throwing water at him.
Seeing his condition, the fire chief realized he had relatives in the house, so he asked other firefighters to get them out.
Loserne District Attorney Sam Cengudoles says the preliminary investigation revealed that the fire started in the porch around 2:30 p.m.
"The fire spread so quickly, there was no way for anyone to get out."
In response to a question, he said that three people managed to escape from the fire, the investigation is on, but until the situation is clear, it cannot be said that someone started the fire intentionally.
Nescopeck is a small town on the banks of the Susquehanna River. "We tried hard to get in," said Baker, 57, a firefighter for 40 years.
Among the dead was his 19-year-old son, Dale Baker. "My son wanted to be like me in everything he did," Baker said.
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