8 children died in a fire in Philadelphia

It is already too late when the firefighters of Philadelphia (United States) arrive in front of a building in the city which is in the process of catching fire. An intense fire that broke out on the second floor of a social housing building. Twelve dead including eight children, the toll is provisional, but it is already one of the deadliest of the history of Philadelphia. Jacuita Purifoy lost ten family members including three sisters and seven nephews: “They are all gone except one child who is still alive. He is five years old and he does not understand what just happened.”

The building, owned by the city, was inspected last May, but firefighters found failures that left no chance for the missing. “There were four smoke detectors in the fire and none of them worked”, report Craig Murphy, representative of the firefighters of Philadelphia. An investigation has been opened to find out how the fire could have spread so quickly