02-24-2012, 03:34 AM
another one. horrible.
cause not yet known.
A grandmother and four children were killed this morning when a fire swept through their 130-year-old house in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
Ann Jefferson, 62, and her grandchildren, 12-year-old Alizae, seven-year-old Tyler Davis, two-year-old Elijah Taylor, and a boy, Chris, believed to be age five or six, perished in the blaze.
Another baby girl, two-year-old Angel Taylor, was reportedly saved when her teenage brother ran out of the burning home carrying her in his arms.
Fifteen-year-old Shaquan Phillips apparently tried to return inside to rescue other family members, but was stopped by firefighters.
police and the prosecutor's office were investigating the cause of the fire.
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cause not yet known.
A grandmother and four children were killed this morning when a fire swept through their 130-year-old house in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
Ann Jefferson, 62, and her grandchildren, 12-year-old Alizae, seven-year-old Tyler Davis, two-year-old Elijah Taylor, and a boy, Chris, believed to be age five or six, perished in the blaze.
Another baby girl, two-year-old Angel Taylor, was reportedly saved when her teenage brother ran out of the burning home carrying her in his arms.
Fifteen-year-old Shaquan Phillips apparently tried to return inside to rescue other family members, but was stopped by firefighters.
police and the prosecutor's office were investigating the cause of the fire.