Fire in family home
NZPA-AP Hoffman Estates, Illinois Six of ten children in a family for whom police had started a Christmas collection died in a fire that engulfed their home in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, authorities said yesterday. A teenage brother of the victims escaped the blaze and had to be restrained by
firefighters when he tried to re-enter the house to help his brother and sisters. The victims, five sisters and a brother ranging in age from eight to 15, were among 10 children living in the home with their divorced mother, Patricia Krawczyk, who had recently suffered a heart attack, Police Sergeant Robert Syre said.
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