3 Children Die in Detroit Fire
Two Other Children Are Hospitalized With Injuries
POSTED: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
UPDATED: 7:35 am EST March 3, 2010
DETROIT -- Three children died Tuesday night when fire swept through a house on Detroit's west side.
The victims were two boys and a girl, all under the age of 5.
Two other children who were taken from the house on Bangor Street were hospitalized in critical condition.
Three of the oldest siblings tossed their baby sister out of a second story window to neighbors below and then jumped out the window themselves.
"It was crazy. It happened so quick," said neighbor Beverly Burg.
Neighbors told Local 4 the mother of those children was not at home. She was contacted by cell phone and arrived at the scene.
Investigators said an adult was home at the time.
Detroit Fire Department Battalion Chief Larry Lauer said firefighters found the young victims in the house.
"They made a quick attack upstairs, located one child, brought her down, found two more and firemen administered CPR," Lauer said.
Relatives say the house had no natural gas but it had electricity, and the landlord had provided the family with a space heater.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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