Children Die In Fire At A Children's Center

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Five children died in a fire at a nursery school in Pennsylvania and four of the five victims were siblings. The minors were between 10 months and 8 years old. Erie firefighters described the tragedy as "a very difficult night." They arrived at the kindergarten around 1 am after receiving a call alerting them that there was a fire with several people trapped. Firefighters were able to remove the seven trapped people from the building, most of them children in critical condition. All five children died, a sixth person was flown by emergency helicopter to a hospital in Pittsburgh, and the seventh person was a teenager who managed to escape with minor injuries and was not hospitalized, according to reports.

Four of the five boys - two boys and two girls aged 8, 6 and 4 and the youngest 10 months - were siblings. Their grandmother, Valerie Lockett-Slupski, told the Erie Times News. "We are all puzzled, trying to assimilate how this happened," he said.

The little ones were staying up at the Harris Family Daycare - which had night care and was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - while their parents worked. Officials said the person who was rushed to the hospital was the owner and operator of the daycare, which was in stable condition.

A neighbor described the scene of the fire as complete chaos and told the Erie Times News newspaper that she saw a 12-year-old teenager jumping from the roof of the house yelling "Where is my mom going to live now?" According to reports, fire was coming out of every window on the first floor of the house when firefighters arrived. The case is still under investigation and there are no further details at this time. May the victims rest in peace.