FROM DAILY MAIL: Six people were killed, including four children, after a massive fire engulfed a home in Maryland on Sunday morning.
The Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department said it responded at around 8.40am to the house on Declaration Court North for a report of a large fire with people trapped inside.
Upon arriving and seeing the blaze consuming the house, fire officials quickly upgraded the fire to two alarms as it spread to a neighboring home, The Bay Net reports.
It then took more than 70 firefighters an hour to get the inferno under control, and by the time they were done, photos showed a burned out husk of the two-story home where nine people lived.
One person managed to escape the fire and two were not home when it started, WTOP reports.
A firefighter had to beo rushed to a nearby hospital for an unspecified medical emergency, and another was treated for minor injuries, reports say.
Six people are dead after a house fire broke out in Waldorf, Maryland, early Sunday morning, officials said.
The victims were two adults and four children, according to officials.
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