PA - 5 Kids Dead at Day Care Fire. Others Injured. Erie. 11 August 2019

[PastTense]

"Erie firefighters raced to a westside residence that housed a family and served as a longtime day care facility early Sunday morning on reports that the three-story structure was burning and that people were possibly trapped inside.

Firefighters, met with intense flames coming out of the front of 1248 W. 11th St., quickly knocked down the fire and rescued five young children from the second floor within minutes of arriving on the scene, according to city fire officials.

Five children did not survive. Four of the five children, two boys and two girls ages 8, 6, 4 years old, and 10 months, were siblings and were staying at the Harris Family Daycare overnight because their parents were working, a woman who identified herself as their grandmother said at the scene on Sunday afternoon. No information was available as of Sunday evening on the fifth child...

The cause of the fire was unknown on Sunday night.

A total of nine people were either rescued, injured or assisted by emergency responders at the scene after the fire was reported on Sunday at 1:12 a.m."
'We are all at a loss': 5 children dead in Erie fire

 

[Teche]

How tragic! Rest In Peace, little ones!

 

[claudianunes]

Firefighter lost three kids in Pennsylvania day care fire

Three of the five children who died in a Pennsylvania day-care center fire were the kids of a local volunteer firefighter who was battling a separate blaze just blocks away, according to officials.

The blaze may have not been so deadly had the home been equipped with more smoke detectors, Erie Fire Chief Guy Santone told CNN. Only one was found in the attic of the home.
“If there were the proper amount of smoke detectors in this structure, then most, if not all, would have survived,” Santone said.

 

[PastTense]

"ATF has offered assistance in finding cause of the fire at 1248 W. 11th St.

Investigators probing the cause of a Sunday morning fire at a west Erie house said Monday morning that all five of the children who died in the fire were staying at a day care that operated out of the residence.

A relative of four of the children identified them on Sunday as siblings, two boys and two girls, ages 8, 6, and 4 years, and 10 months. Erie police detectives involved in the fire investigation said Monday morning that the fifth child is a 2-year-old boy.

The names of the children have not been released and information was not immediately available Monday morning on the family of the 2-year-old boy."
The latest in the investigation into the Erie fatal fire that killed 5

So there is a bit of a contradiction with post #3 (4 siblings died vs firefighter's 3 children). Perhaps it is a case of the mother remarrying.

 

[MimosaMornings]

A house fire at a Pennsylvania day care killed four siblings and the homeowner's child - CNN

 

[MimosaMornings]

34 Pa. Code § 403.23. Child day care facilities.

 

[meanmaryjean]

No smoke detectors in the living areas?

 

[PastTense]

The article from post #4 is continually being updated--so you might keep rechecking it. The latest:
"The mother of four of the five children who died in a fire at a west Erie day care on Sunday morning has identified her children. The children are Lamyhia Jones, 8; Luther Jones Jr., 6; Ava Jones, 4; and Jaden Augustyniak, 9 months, their mother, Shevona Overton, said early Monday afternoon.""

[Note the three oldest have the same last name and the youngest has a different last name.]

and previously:
"Erie Fire Chief Guy Santone said he has asked officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to provide Erie officials with a list of all of the registered day care facilities in the city so Erie fire and code enforcement officials can inspect them annually....

Santone said the state inspections focus more on cleanliness, and not safety issues such as the presence of smoke detectors. Investigators have said that only one smoke detector was found inside 1249 W. 11th St. after the fire, and it was located in the attic. The fire broke out on the first floor of the house."
The latest in the investigation into the Erie fatal fire that killed 5

 

[MimosaMornings]

Erie, PA day care fire: Mom loses 4 children in fire that claimed 5 lives: "My babies are gone" - CBS News

“The state Department of Human Services Office of Child Development and Early Learning listed the day care as in compliance with requirements following a Dec. 28, 2018, inspection. But a Jan. 3, 2019, inspection note on that listing highlighted "ashes and cigarette or cigar butts" in "a child care space, play space or food preparation area." “

 

[LadyL]

Erie, PA day care fire: Mom loses 4 children in fire that claimed 5 lives: "My babies are gone" - CBS News

“The state Department of Human Services Office of Child Development and Early Learning listed the day care as in compliance with requirements following a Dec. 28, 2018, inspection. But a Jan. 3, 2019, inspection note on that listing highlighted "ashes and cigarette or cigar butts" in "a child care space, play space or food preparation area." “

someone was allowed to smoke in the home?!! in a daycare no less?!!
I'd be pissed if someone was subjecting my child to cancer via smoking, regardless of how the fire started
don't inspections usually include making sure the home is safe - so has enough working smoke detectors?

 

[airportwoman]

And the kids' father is a firefighter!

My dad is a retired FF and smoke detectors were always a priority for our family, and I feel that way to this day.

RIP, little angels.

 

[PastTense]

"A family friend identified the fifth child who died in a fire at a west Erie day care on Sunday morning as 2-year-old Dalvin Pacley. His mother is Karina Facchiano, according to the friend, Angela McNair, an Erie school director."
The latest in the investigation into the Erie fatal fire that killed 5

Thus CNN was wrong in identifying the child as the owner's (Elaine Harris) child. (see post #5)

 

[MsFacetious]

And the kids' father is a firefighter!

My dad is a retired FF and smoke detectors were always a priority for our family, and I feel that way to this day.

RIP, little angels.

That was my first thought too. However since it appears that he was not with the mother anymore, odds are that Mom dropped them off at daycare. I'm guessing that the father didn't know that it didn't have smoke detectors downstairs..

I'm just extremely grateful he was on the other fire and didn't pull his own dead babies out of this one.