A firefighter lost his four children in a fire while he was witnessing a false alarm

While attending an emergency that turned out to be a false alarm, a Pennsylvania firefighter lost four children in the fire of a nursery where they spent the night.

In fact, it shocked the city of Erie last Sunday, five little ones are dead between eight months and seven years. Two teenagers managed to escape. The person in charge of the location was burned by smoke inhalation and transferred to a burn unit in Pittsburgh.

Four of the victims were children of the firefighter A volunteer from Luther Jones who, at the time of the tragedy, was heading for an emergency with a broken fire alarm.

According to the first investigations, the authorities suspect that the cause of the fire It was an electrical overload. In this regard, local Fire Chief Guy Santone said the house had only one smoke detector and was in the attic. "They could have avoided a tragedy if they had more detectors instead, "he lamented.