Six individuals, together with three youngsters, had been killed in a fireplace that destroyed a house southwest of Atlanta early Monday, the native coroner stated.
The youngsters’s ages had been 6, 12 and 13, the Coweta County Coroner’s Workplace advised The Atlanta Journal-Structure.
The oldest sufferer was of their 70s, authorities stated. Their identities weren’t instantly launched.
There have been 11 individuals inside the house, and the 5 survivors had been taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Coweta County Fireplace Rescue stated in a press release.
Among the survivors had “critical accidents,” the company stated.
Firefighters had been dispatched to the house simply north of Newnan, Georgia, at 4:57 a.m. “The primary unit arrived inside 9 minutes and located that over 50 p.c of the house was engulfed in flames, with fireplace coming from the roof,” Coweta County fireplace officers stated.
A Coweta County firefighter sustained minor accidents, fireplace officers stated.“Our hearts exit to the household and buddies affected by this tragic loss,” the Coweta County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a press release.
“We ask that everybody please preserve the victims and their family members of their ideas and prayers.”
Newnan is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Atlanta.
Coweta County Fireplace Rescue is working with county and state fireplace marshals and the Coweta County Sheriff’s Workplace to find out the trigger, authorities stated.