Ten people, including three children, died Friday in a house fire in Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States, police said in a statement.
Rescue teams went early Friday to a house in Nescopeck, a small city in the eastern part of the state, where "10 victims," including "three minors," were "found dead in the building," Pennsylvania police said in a statement. release.
Three adults were able to get out of the place unharmed, added the police, who did not specify the causes of the fire.
American media images show the ruins of the house, completely devoured by the flames.
The two deceased children were five and six years old, while the girl was seven
.
The other victims range between 19 and 79 years.
Harold Baker, one of the Nescopeck firefighters called to control the fire, lost two of his children and knew eight of the 10 victims, he told the New York Times.
At the beginning of the year, two terrible fires affected the northeastern United States:
17 people, including eight children, died on January 9
in a building in the impoverished neighborhood of the Bronx, in New York.
And five days earlier, eight children and four adults died during a fire in a neighborhood of social houses in the center of Philadelphia, the main city of Pennsylvania.
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