Investigators are searching for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children. Firefighters arrived quickly early Wednesday but found the two-story house in Jeannette already engulfed. The child victims ranged in age from 7 years to 1 month old.
JEANNETTE, Pa. — 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.
Neighbor Jack Mull said he saw the flames when he stepped outside to have a cigarette early Wednesday, just after midnight. He screamed at his daughter to call 911 and raced to get a ladder. He told reporters he saw the children’s mother, Miranda John, standing on a rear roof with a small child.
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