Investigators on Thursday searched for the cause of a Jeannette, Pennsylvania, housefire that left five people dead, four of whom were children under 10.
Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children and spreading to another house before the flames were extinguished. Firefighters arrived quickly but found the two-story house in Jeannette already engulfed. The man's fiancée and two other children were rescued by a neighbor, police and firefighters.
The mother, she just didn’t want to give up,' said Mull, adding she tried to go back inside. 'It’s the worst thing you could ever imagine, knowing they were in there.' Miranda John and the surviving children, ages 10 and 1, were hospitalized. The Westmoreland County coroner identified the victims as Tyler J. King, 27; Kyson John, 7; Kinzleigh John, 6; Keagan John, 3; and 1-month-old Korbyn John.
state police fire marshal unit and city police were among the agencies working to determine the origin and cause of the fire, and 'it could be some time' before a ruling is made, Trooper Clifford Greenfield, a state police spokesperson, said Thursday.
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