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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.
(AP) - Fire officials in New Jersey said four of the five people killed in an
early morning house fire were children and that all the victims were found on
the second floor of the converted farmhouse.
South Plainfield Fire Chief
Thomas Scalera said by the time firefighters arrived early Thursday, flames
were so intense that they could not access the second floor even with ladders.
The chief said
firefighters remain "very somber" because they weren't able to rescue
the children. He said it was South Plainfield's mostly deadly fire on record.
Relatives said the fifth
victim was the children's grandmother. The children's mother and three other
children escaped the blaze. The fire chief said only one of the injured victims
remains hospitalized.
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