Five dead including children in Carbon County house fire

FRANKLIN TWP., CARBON COUNTY(WBRE/WYOU) — State police confirm five people were killed in a house fire early Wednesday morning that included four children.

Pennsylvania State Police and Carbon County Coroner, Mark Smith, state that a total of five people were killed: one woman, three boys, and one girl were found dead.

Shortly after midnight, the coroner’s office was called to the 0 hundred block of Willow Street in Franklin Township for a reported house fire involving fatalities.

Troopers reported that when the fire department arrived, the home was fully engulfed on the first floor and the rear of the second floor…

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