5 Children Dead After Erie House Fire
ERIE, Pa. (KDKA) - Five children are dead following a day care fire in Erie.
Three of the five children who died in Sunday's fire at the day care were the children of a local volunteer firefighter.
CBS affiliate WSEE-TV reports that Luther Jones was at the scene of another call just blocks away when the day care began to burn.
The fatal house fire on 1248 West 11th Street erupted early Sunday morning around 1:15 a.m. at the Harris Family Daycare.
The owner of the home, Elaine Harris, was also injured in the fire and flown to a Pittsburgh hospital. She is reportedly in stable condition.
Firefighters successfully got all seven people inside the house out, but five children died.
"These firefighters are tough, but when something like this happens, it is different," Erie Fire Chief Guy Santone said.
Santone told WSEE investigators suspect an electrical overload may have sparked the fire, and there was only one smoke detector located in the attic of the home.
The home operated as a 24-hour daycare.
