Firefighters extinguish a mobile home fire Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, that killed a man and five children in Tiffin, Ohio, according to police. Fire crews pulled the man and the children from the home, and all six were taken to Tiffin Mercy Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.TIFFIN, Ohio – A fast-moving fire claimed the lives of a man and five children ages 6 and under on Sunday morning when it swept through a mobile home in northwest Ohio.
The fire was reported shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday in a mobile home park in Tiffin, about 50 miles southeast of Toledo. Firefighters got all six people out in about 12 minutes, but all were pronounced dead at a hospital, Tiffin Fire Chief William said.
Owanna Ortiz said her first cousin, Anna Angel, was the children’s mother and lived in the home with them and the man who died. She said her cousin had four daughters of her own as well as a son with the man.
“She had a whole family and now she has nothing,” Ortiz said.
The family didn’t have a car and had to get around on bicycles, Oritz said.