MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — Five people are dead after a fire late Thursday night in Monroe county.
The home along Brook Road in Polk Township, near Kunkletown, went up just before midnight.
According to the coroner, five people are dead–a 53-year-old woman and four children between the ages of 2 and 7.
Neighbors say this is heartbreaking.
"Unbelievable," Jo Rosebery said. "I was devastated. I mean, I see them playing in the driveway, well two of them anyway, all the time, and it was a total shock. Like, this can't happen here."
We know that all the people who died in the fire lived here. Their relationship to each other is still unknown.
State police say the fire started accidentally and are still trying to determine what started it
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