Four girls between 3 months and 5 years old were among six people killed Sunday night in a mobile home fire in northwest Georgia, state officials said Monday.
The fire started about 10:30 p.m. at a single-wide trailer in the 1100 block of Airport Road in Trion, said Glenn Allen, the spokesman for the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens. Trion is in Chattooga County and more than 90 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta.
At some point Sunday, 29-year-old Miron Bradley Jones installed a wooden stove to heat the mobile home, Allen said. Investigators believe the stove was placed too close to a wood panel wall in the living room. That, investigators said, caused the fire, which was ruled accidental.
Jones and his wife died trying to rescue their daughters and a cousin, Allen said.
The children were identified as Olivia Josephina Jones, 3 months; Lola Rosanna Jones, 3; Clair McKenzie Jones, 5; and Jada Marie Kendrick, 5. The wife was identified as 22-year-old Demi Josephine Jones.
On Monday, family and friends stopped by what remained of the home.
Neighbor Brian Osburn told Channel 2 Action News he saw the flames from across the street.
“I thought they were burning trash at first and when I got over here I could see it was just engulfed in flames coming out of the window,” he said.
Family friend Debra Gray told Channel 2 that relatives of the Jones family will need a lot of prayers in the coming days.
The fire in Trion was one of at least two deadly fires Sunday in Georgia. Earlier in the day, five adults, a dog and a cat were killed in a fire at a house on Post Oak Drive in Duluth. Investigators say a fire pit on the back deck, which had been used the night before, may have started the fire.
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Authorities have not released the names of the dead in the Duluth fire.
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