Seven children die in Brooklyn house fire

A fire investigator inspects the burned-out home where seven children died in Brooklyn, N.Y.  (Kena Betancur / Getty Images)

Neighbors talk to police near the scene of the fatal fire in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn.  (Kena Betancur / Getty Images)

Articles of clothes hang from a rain gutter of the home in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn where an overnight fire killed seven children.  (Kena Betancur / Getty Images)

Neighbors look at the scene of a fire in which seven children from the same family died in Brooklyn, N.Y.  (Kena Betancur / Getty Images)

Firefighters walk down the street in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn where a house fire left seven children dead.  (Kena Betancur / Getty Images)

New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro discusses grim details of the Brooklyn house fire at a news conference Saturday morning. Seven children died and two other people were injured.  (Mary Altaffer / Associated Press)

Firefighters investigate a deadly house fire in Brooklyn on Saturday.   (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)

A firefighter looks over the back stoop of a home in Brooklyn where an overnight fire killed seven people.  (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)

Firefighters respond to the Brooklyn blaze that left seven children dead.  (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)