MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) — Six members of the family, together with three youngsters, died after a fast-moving fireplace swept by a house in northern New York, in response to officers.
Excessive winds fueled the fireplace that struck a single-family dwelling at round 10 p.m. on Monday in Massena, a city close to the St. Lawrence River and the northern border with Canada.
State and county fireplace officers have been investigating the reason for the fireplace and mentioned they consider it began within the kitchen.
A member of the family recognized the victims as Diana Avery, Thomas Bowen, Tiara Bowen, Joshuha Bowen, 14, Eli Bowen, 9, and Karmen Bowen, 6. The relative, Joseph Bowen, mentioned Avery owned the home and was his mom and Thomas Bowen was his brother.
“My brother was a jack-of-all-trades and his spouse was the keeper of the youngsters,” Joseph Bowen mentioned in a cellphone interview Thursday. “They liked tenting. They liked to go to the seashore and so they liked enjoying in water.”
The household in a press release thanked neighborhood members, together with emergency responders and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, for his or her help.
“Though our hearts are saddened and mourn for the lack of our members of the family, it’s uplifting to listen to how our household has touched and uplifted this neighborhood,” the household mentioned in a press release to offered to native information retailers. “Like this tragedy, phrases can not specific how this impacts the neighborhood that they had and the approaching collectively of the neighborhood.”
Massena Central College District Superintendent Ronald Burke mentioned in a message to the college neighborhood that “our hearts are damaged on the lack of the three Bowen youngsters,” who he mentioned attended the junior excessive and elementary colleges.
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