PHILADELPHIA — Three children and one man, believed to be their father, were killed early Sunday morning in a raging house fire in North Philadelphia, authorities said.
Heavy fire was visible from both floors of a two-story row house on the 3200 block of Hartville Street in the city’s Kensington section when firefighters arrived shortly after 2 a.m., according to the Philadelphia Fire Department.
“Despite an aggressive interior attack by firefighters, four people did not survive; three of them were children,” the Fire Department said in a statement issued Sunday morning. Their identities were not released and the cause of the fire was under investigation by the Fire Marshal’s Office.
