Overview
- The blaze, which neighbors reported just before 5:30 a.m. Saturday, tore through a home on the 2100 block of Richard Avenue in White Bear Lake and left four people and a dog dead.
- The Minnesota State Fire Marshal is leading the probe after local officials reported no evidence of arson in early findings, with the official cause still under review.
- The NHL and the Minnesota Wild confirmed the victims as Jessi Pierce, 37, and her children Hudson, Cayden and Avery.
- Pierce covered the Wild for NHL.com for about a decade, and colleagues, the league and the team shared tributes that highlighted her reporting, her podcast work and her devotion to her kids.
- Neighbors told dispatchers they saw flames coming through the roof, multiple departments responded, and firefighters found one adult, three children and a dog inside after suppressing the fire.