Overview
- Fire crews responded to heavy flames at a house on the 4200 block of McCart Avenue around 3 a.m. Thursday and found the home engulfed.
- A passerby broke a door or window and pulled at least two children out before firefighters arrived and was treated for cuts and burns.
- Firefighters rescued two additional people and found two victims already outside when they reached the scene.
- A school-age child was pronounced dead at the house and three other children were injured, with two airlifted to a burn hospital and one taken by ambulance to a Fort Worth hospital.
- Fort Worth Fire Department arson investigators remain on site to determine the cause while the American Red Cross is assisting the family and officials urged residents to check smoke alarms.