5 Children Die in Fire Set by Electric Heater
Associated Press
CLEVELAND —
Five children were killed Sunday when flames raced through their two-story house after an electric heater ignited a couch, fire officials said.
The victims, believed to range in age from 1 to 7, included three boys and two girls. A fire department spokesman said the mother of three of the victims escaped with her two other children.
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