Five people, including four children, have died in a Carbon County house fire, according to investigators.

Flames ignited just before 11:50 p.m. Tuesday in the home in the first block of Willow Street in Franklin Township, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Anthony Petroski III, public information officer for Troop N, said.

Responding troopers and firefighters found the main floor and back second floor of the home “fully engulfed,” Petroski said.

Carbon County Chief Deputy Coroner Jason T. Smith said five occupants, who all lived at the home, were found deceased inside. In a news release Wednesday morning, Smith said a woman died along with a juvenile female victim and three boys.

Petroski told lehighvalleylive.com no other people were inside when the blaze broke out.

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