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Three children and a woman were killed in a house fire in a Forth Worth suburb on Thursday night.
The fire was reported at a two-story home in Haltom City, Texas, at about 5:15 p.m. (6:15 p.m. ET)
Officials said fire crews pulled a 6-month-old girl, a boy who was 5 or 6 years old, a girl who was 10 or 11 years old and a woman from the house but all four later were declared dead.
A neighbor called 911 when he noticed the fire.
"I walked out and I noticed the front window -- there was smoke coming out of it -- so I ran up to it, to the curb and I yelled, 'Hey! Your house! The house is on fire! Hey, is anybody in there?' And nobody said anything, so I called 911," Phillip Heard said.
Connie Webb, another neighbor, said the children's mother was at work when the fire broke out and rushed home in tears.
"I hugged her when she walked up and I said, 'Go to the hospital and be with your family. We'll watch out for your home and take care of everything,'" Webb added.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Wow. Can you imagine what that mother is going through? But let me guess--there was no working smoke alarms in the house. Why do people not give this device such importance?
But let you guess? But let me guess that - you have nothing better to do than troll and guess.
My condolences to the Mother, Dad, and other loved ones on the loss of your family.
My condolences to Alex' family who has to live with an obviously arrogant, guessing, jumping to conclusions, idiot. Of course this is just my GUESS!
Where was the Mother----where was the Father--did the Mother smoke ----you guessed it
Alan......dude.............
The story clearly states the mother was at "work" and rushed home. "Very short story".
NRA,
If you do not agree with someone, there's no need to call them a troll or idiot. It actually reflects your personality. Alex deserves an apology man.
This vine is to post comments whether we're guessing or just making a point.
Not sure where you're going with this. Arrogant?! Idiot?! WTF is that. He's just speaking his mind "EXACTLY" how you are however, his post is "NOT" arrogant "but" yours is.... Jesus man...
The article clearly states the mother was at work , It does not mention a father so we do not know if he is alive or dead .
So you are only guessing and you are not only just guessing you are guessing without reading and comprehending what the article has said.
Moderators, Once you see that a username is placing advertising spam in remarks and you delete that spam the next logical step would be to ban/suspend the username.
It that really all that hard of a concept to grasp.
Lost,
When someone is deleted, all their posts are automatically deleted because it recognizes their e-mail address. What these a-holes do is use another e-mail address to get through. Then it starts all over again. Ugh!
Creek, I understand that but they should also suspend the username, All of theses posts including the deleted ones are coming from the same username
Before you jump to conclusions, there was a report just put out in October which showed that 90% of homes in the United States use ionization detectors, which don't work very well for smoldering fires. They are designed to go off for fast flash over fires. For those what are slow burning fires, most of the ones people buy may not go off until long after toxic smoke has already filled rooms with deadly smoke. The government knows about this.Three states already mandate new homes must have the photosensitive detectors installed. In side by side tests done, these better ones went off seventeen minutes sooner then the regular ones. If the other ones went off at all. Fire fighters participating were shocked to see the results. The only reason these better ones are not required in all homes is because the industry hasn't been forced to do so. Although the companies which make the cheap ones also make the better ones. At a slightly higher cost.
Seeing another family die like this just makes me sick. One would think, after hearing about the eight children and two adults who died, people would just go check their detectors to make sure. But if the detectors are not the problem, but heaters, or some other cause, it is just frustrating. Every year, it seems children end up dying, families lost to fires. Just a tragic waste of life and never should happen. My prayers to the parents of those children and loved ones lost.
Just want to add to the above comment. You are absolutely correct in your post. As a firefighter for 17 years, myself and several of my colleagues were surprised by this data on smoke detectors. Personally, I went out and replaced all of my detectors with dual sensor models. One of the issues is that the the photo detectors are more expensive then the ionization models. That fact, combined with a lack of knowledge causes people to make a uninformed, possibly deadly choice. Don't buy your detectors on price alone, please do some research and realize that your live does depend on this device. I highly recommend dual sensor models to every person who asks me for advice.
Horrible thing to happen to anyone.
I'm sure it won't be long before some A-hole tries to blame the state of Texas or GW here at MS/NBC.
As soon as I saw Texas in the headline I thought the same thing.
My condolences to the family, A tragedy like this can happen to anyone and we must all use due dilligence to insure our homes are safe and that we are alert to any possible dangers.
Thanks Wind and ji........I'm buying dual sensitive models TOMORROW!
Thank you Windancersong. I wholeheartedly agree. I'd also like to add that these detectors only last a few years and I don't mean just the battery. It can get pricey and some people just can't afford the added expense while struggling to get food on the table. Also some of them go off every time you cook or boil water.
Let me add this to the discussion: Get carbon-monoxide detectors, too. Every home should have at least one near the bedrooms...
why are we assigning blame here, to the mother or to anyone else? this is just a horrible tragedy. if someone failed to replace batteries, it is a very common lapse of memory-not a moral judgement. how awful for, not just the mom, but for all who love the victims
It is a tragedy but no where in the article does it say anything about smoke detectors and dead batteries, You are speculating without any evidence.
I could not imagine being that mother running up to the house and seeing it on fire knowing her babies were inside. They'd have to sedate me.
Tarrahonw387... reported as advertising spam and added to ignore list
What we need here is an Amendment to the Constitution, requiring everyone to have working smoke detectors, and a Federal law that requires a mandatory yearly battery check.
We could hire more teachers to teach smoke detector awareness and firefighters to check everyone's smoke detectors.
I think Joe Bite-me should lead a Congressional panel, and have a Bill on Obama's desk for him to sign into law in a week.
There could also be a provision in the law, banning ALL house fires by Executive Order.
PROBLEM SOLVED.............
Not the time or place.
Really? So there is some sort of "specific crisis" that can be USED to advance liberal agenda?
Since I am not a liberal can you please specify these requirements?
Children died here, and so that seems to fit into the "crisis agenda".
Oh, maybe what is missing here is the "blame factor" and there is no clear "villain" like the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution, to vilify as a "conservative" issue.
I you could blame "big corporations" like those who profit off fire detectors, or home builders.
But I guess there is still no clear "face" to VILLAINIZE here, like gun owners or the NRA, so I guess I see the dilemma.
Oh well you liberals mull it over I am sure you can atleast find some way to throw tax dollars at the problem.
Ban all houses. How about we live in government run housing because we can count on them to save our lives right?
This stupid comment actually received votes...
I can't imagine the anguish that family is going through right now. I don't know how I would be able to handle such heartbreak. I cry when I read such stories. My thoughts and prayers will be with them.
Windancersong-1494878 thank you for the information...I had no idea. Gues what I am doing on the way home from work tonight!
Tragic. Thoughts and prayers for the family.
Where was the Mother--where is the Father--Was the Mother under the influence of-you guessed it
Read the story, The mother was at work...are you under the influence...we guess you are!
Dollars to donuts dad had something to do with the fire. Nice house, affluent suburb of Fort Worth, mom working while sitter is with kids. Dad not in picture and looking to rid himself of kids and child support.
Hmmm...Maybe the father is dead, Maybe the father is in prison, maybe the father is in the military as has been deployed overseas.
Reading your comment I have to say dollars to donuts you are divorced and have gone thru a nasty divorce settlement with your husband, My guess is you may even have been a major reason for the divorce...See how much fun it is when we speculate.
Maybe the "father" is the woman that was pulled from the house... you never know.
Such a horrible loss for anyone to have to deal with.
Titan, That is a possibility but correctly me if I am wrong in same sex relationships where there are 2 women and children aren't both women called mother, Unless you mean that the other woman was originally the father and has undergone HRT and SRS.
Yep you all are a bunch of vultures. It is all you do read stories and make stupid ass comments about @!$%# you know absolutely nothing about.Only what you read. The only thing that should be on any post like this would be a prayer for the family. God bless and sorry for your loss. Our hearts go out to you.
Hey... I resemble that remark...I mean my little photo is a black vulture.
You mean stuff like you wrote in your comment...You mean this kind of stuff that you wrote!
I send my sympathy to the family of the woman and children. It clearly says " a woman and children" were pulled out. For those that made a remark on where the mother was? it sounds like maybe a sitter was home with the kids. NO mention if they smoked or not and why even speculate on something that wasn't even mentioned? nor did it mention anything on smoke detectors.So why even say they didn't have any?? Right now there is a mother who lost her children so why even guess as to what happened when her life is devastated..
Thumbs up to your comment.
Horrible tragedy, may they rest in peace. Hope the Mom can somehow find peace, also.
That being said, however, I feel that something is sideways here...not quite right. This happened at about 5:15 in the afternoon on a weekday. Two of the children were school age. I find it hard to imagine that the woman (babysitter?) and 2 school-age children would be sleeping when this occurred.
There is a lot that we don't know about this family. This could well be some sort of domestic issue.
Hope I'm wrong...
And it could just be a tragic accident, The story provides very little actual details at this point.
It doesn't help that everyone is going back and forth- the story is VERY sad. And whats even sadder is that a mother had a 10-11 year old watching a 6 month old and a 5-6 year old while she went to work to make a living. This wil haunt her for the rest of her life.
Actually if you had read the article it states there was an adult woman in the home, No indication of who this adult woman was so it could have been anyone from a babysitter to mother to sister or friend. So the children were not home alone, Thre was an adult with them
Do people actually take the time to actually READ these articles? Or is reading comprehension just that difficult for some? My goodness!
Lost, you dont have much of a life,do you?
Where did you get that information? The story says three children and a WOMAN died in the fire. The mother was at work and rushed home, apparently after being told of the fire. Most of us would think that the deceased woman was looking after the children; the non-thinkers simply post stupidity...
Robyn, I have a very full life, When I posted those responses this morning I was waiting for the frost to clear so I could go out and prune blueberry bushes and while I was on the computer I was also invoicing items that I had sold and preparing them for shipment, Now at the time I am writing this response to your comment I am taking my lunch break and printing shiping labels for purchases that have to be shipped, It is called multi tasking.
Terrible tragedy. Does obama and biden know this? Maybe they should ban fire. Just make fire illegal so this never hapens again.
My heart is absolutely breaking for this woman who lost all of her babies in this fire. I cannot even begin to imagine what she is going through. How horrific!
what a sad way to start the new year..she must be devistated..
My house caught on fire when I was in middle school.. My mother and I came home and smoke was pouring out of the windows.. I was scared to death because my dog and kitten were inside. I rushed in (I know, dumb of me) and heard my kitten crying - grabbed him and got my Roxy out. I can only imagine these poor children suffering; smoke is just awful to inhale. :( R.I.P to them.. I hope it was not a cover-up for something devious.
Russian-American, Fires that occur when people are sleeping are deadly because the victims rarely wake up. The noxious fumes tend to asphyxiate the sleeping victims. It is why you often hear the cause of death is "smoke inhalation"...It is also why smoke detectors are so essential. They wake you up and give you a fighting chance to escape...
My smoke detectors in the apartment I live in go off when I pan sear anything, even though the smoke is hardly visible. I have found that if I use the rear burners on the stove, with the range hood fan on high, it can usually be avoided. Usually. The noise they make is really, really annoying, and I can't imagine sleeping through that sound. The building itself has another set of alarms that go off when the apartment alarm is not reset after a period of time, and the sound they make is like something from hell. I'd be in a huge hurry to get the hell out of the apartment just to escape the noise, and you actually have to leave the building to get away from it. I guess that is a pretty deliberate design. But it works.
No mother wants to come home to dead kids:(
from briefly glancing at the article this has all the ear markings of an arson gone bad.
My cat has ear markings but he has never set a fire!
Somehow I don't think earmark is the wording that describes what you were trying to say, Further I don't see anything to indicate in what brief amount of info in the article showed any evidence of arson.
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