Four people, one pet found dead in Oconto house fire
Four people, one pet found dead in Oconto house fire
Four people and one pet were found dead after firefighters responded to a house fire in Oconto on Friday morning.
DEAD..
AFTER AHOUSE FIRE..
IN"OCONTO."FIREFIGHTERSRUSHED TO THEHOME ON THE NINE-HUNDRED BLOCK OF"FABRY STREET"..JUST BEFORE THREE..THIS MORNING.N-B-C 26'S ABIGAILHANTKE IS ON THESCENE IN OCONTOTONIGHT WITH THELATEST..
ABIGAIL?STACY,CREWS HAVE BEENHERE ALL DAY...WESTILL DON'T KNOWWHAT CAUSED THEFIRE HERE ON FARBYSTREET BEFORE 3THIS MORNING....BUTTHE ROAD HAS BEENBLOCKED OFF ALLDAY...AND OCONTOBEING A SMALL CITY,THE COMMUNITY ISSTEPPING UP TO TRYAND OFFER SUPPORT.FLAMES COULD BESEEN COMING FROMTHE HOUSE THISMORNING.
THE FIREDEPARTMENT SAYSCREWS WORKEDQUICKLY TO KNOCKDOWN THE FIRE.
ITWAS DURINGSUPPRESSIONEFFORTS THAT THEFOUR PEOPLE ANDONE PET WEREFOUND DEAD INSIDETHE HOME.
THEVICTIMS HAVE NOTBEEN IDENTIFIED ATTHIS POINT.
AS WEMENTIONED, OCONTOBEING A SMALL CITY,WHEN THE SCHOOLDISTRICT LEARNED OFTHE FIRE THEYDECIDED TO GET APLAN IN PLACE BYOFFERINGCOUNSELING FORSTUDENTS TODAY ATSCHOOL."Tragedy of any naturebrings up trauma fromstudents in their lives nomatter if it's related to ahouse fire or to a death inthe family and we want allof our families to knowwe're here to supportthem and their students sothey can make surethey're ready to learn andbe functioning as theyneed to"MILLER, THESUPERINTENDENTADDS THAT THEY'RESADDENED BYTODAY'S EVENTS.
BUTTHEY WILL CONTINUEOFFERINGCOUNSELINGSERVICES ONSATURDAYTHE OCONTO COUNTYHUMAN SERVICESDEPARTMENT IS ALSOOFFERINGCOUNSELING FORANYONE WHO MAYNEED IT.
AGAIN THISIS STILL AN ACTIVEINVESTIGATION.
ANDTHE FIREDEPARTMENT SAYSTHEY'RE WORKING ONNOTIFYING THE NEXTOF KIN.LIVE IN OCONTO,ABIGAIL HANTKENBC26NEWDEVELOPMENTS
