Ten people, including three children, died Friday in a house fire in Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States, police said in a statement.
The emergency services intervened early Friday in a house in Nescopeck, a small town in the east of the state, and “10 victims” including “three minors” were “found dead in the building,” the Pennsylvania police said in a release. Statement sent to AFP.
Three adults managed to get out of the fire safely, added the police, who did not provide an explanation about the causes of the fire that completely destroyed the house.
Three children aged 5, 6 and 7
US media images show the ruins of a building completely destroyed by flames, the walls charred.
The three children, two boys and a girl, were five, six and seven years old. The ages of the other seven victims range from 19 to 79 years.
Harold Baker, a Nescopeck firefighter called overnight to the scene of the fire, lost two of his children and knew eight of the 10 total victims, he told the New York Times.
At the beginning of the year, two terrible fires had devastated the northeastern United States: 17 people, including eight children, had perished on January 9 in a building in the working-class neighborhood of the Bronx, in New York.
And, five days earlier, eight children and four adults had succumbed to a fire in a public housing district in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city.
Source: BFM TV
