FIRE TRAGEDY
Four dead including three children in horror blaze that leaves another two in hospital and home utterly destroyed
FOUR people have died in a horrific house fire and two others were hospitalized.
The house fire broke out in the northern Crawford County borough of Springboro around 7pm on Friday.
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Three children, two boys, ages 10 and 14 and a girl, age six months, and an adult woman, 65, died in the fire, reports .
Springboro Fire Department Chief Keith Shauberger says two people were taken to the hospital with injuries.
A 45-year-old woman was transported to a burn unit in Pittsburg in critical condition.
A 63-year-old man is in stable condition at Meadville Medical Center, State Police said.
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Several dogs and cats also died in the fire, though there is not an exact count for how many.
Fire crews returned to the home Saturday morning to douse hot spots and make sure the blaze was completely out.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation but Shauberger says the preliminary probe suggests it may have started near the first-floor laundry room in the middle of the home, according to .
The house was divided into two apartments. The children were found on the second floor at the south end of the house, and the woman was found near the northwest corner of the house on the first floor.
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Ten family members lived in the two apartments, a family member said. Excluding him, he says six of the relatives were home at the time of the fire.
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