Post by Logan on Mar 6, 2017 8:57:47 GMT -6
WARWICK — A mother and four children were killed when flames swept through their rural Massachusetts home early Saturday, fire officials said.
Two other family members escaped the fire, which broke in the single-family house at about 12:45 a.m. Investigators said initial indications were the blaze was accidental and possibly started in a wood stove in the kitchen.
The bodies of the victims were recovered in the rubble of the home several hours later after the fire was extinguished, authorities said.
"There was nothing we could have done different, unfortunately," an emotional Fire Chief Ron Gates said during an afternoon news conference. "When we got on scene, the house was totally engulfed."
Read more: www.telegram.com/news/20170304/mother-4-children-die-in-western-mass-fire
Two other family members escaped the fire, which broke in the single-family house at about 12:45 a.m. Investigators said initial indications were the blaze was accidental and possibly started in a wood stove in the kitchen.
The bodies of the victims were recovered in the rubble of the home several hours later after the fire was extinguished, authorities said.
"There was nothing we could have done different, unfortunately," an emotional Fire Chief Ron Gates said during an afternoon news conference. "When we got on scene, the house was totally engulfed."
Read more: www.telegram.com/news/20170304/mother-4-children-die-in-western-mass-fire