‘You could hear the screams’: Mother, adult son killed in house fire
A mother and her adult son were killed in an early morning house fire in southwest Atlanta, neighbors told Channel 2 Action News.
Appears fatal house fire started at corner on front porch and spread upward. A mother and adult son were trapped and died on the 2nd floor of the house on Pope St. SW pic.twitter.com/yPpuXNWqbR
— Steve Gehlbach (@SteveGWSB) July 19, 2018
Witness Lynn Blake said she could hear the man and woman screaming for help from inside the two story house in the 10 block of Pope Street.
“Traumatizing,” she told the news station. “You could hear the screams. They stopped.”
She described the scene.
“Bursting flames,” Blake said. “Fire was humongous.”
Firefighters who responded to the blaze just after 1 a.m. Thursday had to use a ladder to access the second floor because the first was filled with flames, Atlanta fire Sgt. Cortez Stafford told Channel 2.
“One of our companies went inside the second floor that was heavily involved with fire and flames through the roof and they were able to get the victims out, but unfortunately it was too late,” Stafford said.
Neighbor says mother and adult son died in this house fire overnight on Pope St. in SW Atlanta. They were screaming for help, trapped on 2nd floor, but no one could get to them in time. LIVE report next at 6a pic.twitter.com/72XDCS5HOA
— Steve Gehlbach (@SteveGWSB) July 19, 2018
While investigators are still on scene working to determine the cause of the fire, preliminary findings indicate the blaze started in a corner on the front porch and spread upward, officials told Channel 2.
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