Some additional stories of rescue attempts are starting to come out. An off duty FF and an off duty Battalion Chief got there prior to the first due engine and entered the house without any gear trying to find the missing 1 and 13 year old kids. The fuel fed fire drove them out. A FF from the arriving Rescue Company entered through a rear first floor window of an involved room and was able to make the second floor looking for the baby. As he did the fire cut off the stairs behind him and trapped him in a second floor bedroom. Another FF and a police officer threw a ladder to that window and he bailed out the window as the fire burned through the door into that room.

Tough day for all.

Weather around that time was south winds gusting to 19, 9 miles visibility and a variable ceiling between 6 and 1100.