Two 4-Year-Old Siblings Die in Nashville House Fire
I woke up to the kind of news no parent ever wants to imagine.
Two four-year-old children died early Monday morning after a house fire tore through a quiet Hermitage neighborhood, just a few blocks from Percy Priest Lake. It happened around 4:30 a.m.—a time when most families are still asleep, their guard down, thinking the night is safe.
Fire crews rushed to the home on Arbor Pointe Way after reports of flames on the back deck. When they arrived, the mother had already made it out with one child. But two of her children were still trapped upstairs. Firefighters went in immediately, battling smoke and flames in the attic, trying to reach the kids in time…