Dupont Estates fire: Four children killed and four adults hospitalized in devastating blaze at Indiana mobile home park
FOUR children are dead, and four adults have been hospitalized after flames engulfed a mobile home.
The blaze broke out at around 8.30am Thursday at Dupont Estates Mobile Home Park in Fort Wayne, .
Four children in the mobile home were pronounced dead on the scene, the Fort Wayne Fire Department said.
The kids were identified as siblings, Matthew Damron, 10, Johnnie Mann-Goff, 5, Jefferson Goff, 3, and Rosalynn Goff, 2, reported.
On Monday, the Allen County Coroner's Office said the children died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns from the fire.
However, the manners of their deaths, though, were “pending investigation,” the coroner’s office told WANE-15.
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Officials said four additional adults were transported to a local hospital.
The adults were identified as Jessica Mann 30, Audrey Kistler, 24, Samuel R. Barnett, 17, and Travis J. Garrison, 18.
Their condition was not immediately known.
Fire officials are trying to determine what sparked the deadly fire.
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Photos from the scene showed several firefighters working the scene as with mobile home appeared to have sustained heavy fire damage.
Two vehicles were in the driveway, and a large blue tarp could be seen covering the front end of a pickup.
FWFD officials responded to another fire at the same mobile home park Saturday afternoon.
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In that blaze, an adult and child were able to escape, but a dog perished in the fire, the FWFD said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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