LIBERTY COUNTY \u2014 Two young siblings were killed in a camper fire early Tuesday morning in Liberty County despite firefighters crawling inside the burning structure in an effort to save them, according to KTRK-TV in Houston.<\/p>\n
KTRK reports the children’s grandfather identified the victims as a 3-year-old boy and his 2-year-old sister.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out at about 5:25 a.m. on a heavily wooded property along County Road 3819, not far from Highway 59 near Cleveland, according to KTRK.<\/p>\n
Emergency calls from the scene reported an RV fully engulfed in flames with people believed to be inside.<\/p>\n
Cleveland Fire Chief Sean Anderson told KTRK the camper was burning and beginning to collapse when firefighters arrived, but crews still went inside.<\/p>\n
“They went ahead and crawled in, extinguishing it when it was on fire. They found the kids inside,” Anderson told KTRK.<\/p>\n
Both children died.<\/p>\n
KTRK reports the camper was one of several RVs and mobile homes scattered across the property, where Anderson said the children’s family and friends lived.<\/p>\n
Investigators are trying to determine where the children’s parents were when the fire started.<\/p>\n
Anderson told KTRK the parents were “in the area of the fire at the time,” but declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n
“That’s part of the investigation. We’re looking into it,” Anderson told KTRK.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
KTRK reports radio traffic from the emergency response captured the gravity of the scene, including a request to send a chaplain.<\/p>\n
Anderson told KTRK the chaplain was needed not only for the grieving family but also for the first responders who responded to the fire.<\/p>\n
The children’s bodies were taken to the medical examiner’s office in Jefferson County, where autopsies will determine what caused their deaths, according to KTRK.<\/p>\n
The Liberty County Fire Marshal’s Office is leading the investigation and told KTRK that additional information will be released after the autopsies are completed.<\/p>\n
This story is based on reporting from KTRK-TV\/ABC13 in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIBERTY COUNTY \u2014 Two young siblings were killed in a camper fire early Tuesday morning in Liberty County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-404530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}