He said 13 dogs were also in the two-story home, but didn't say if he knew whether any survived. He said his two children and the other young victims were visiting their aunt and uncle's home for swimming and other summertime fun. Star Baker, pictured here with her fiancé Matthew Burger, was 22 years old Harold Baker, a volunteer firefighter in the town of Nescopeck, said the 10 victims included his son, daughter, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, three grandchildren and two other relatives.
One volunteer firefighter arrived to battle the blaze only to discover the victims were his own family, authorities said. Nescopeck is a small town on the Susquehanna River, about 20 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. Three people were able to escape the blaze, which destroyed the structure. The county's district attorney, Sam Sanguedolce, said a preliminary investigation suggests the fire broke out on the front porch at around 2.30am. The fire in Nescopeck was reported around 2:30amĪll 10 died of smoke inhalation, according to the Luzerne County coroner's office.Ī ruling on the manner of death - classifying the deaths as accidents or homicides - is pending the results of the state police investigation into the fire, officials said. However, at this time officials say that the suspect in Saturday's fatal crash and murder is not a suspect in the fatal fire that killed 10 people on August 5, the cause of which remains under investigation.įirefighters set up lights in front of a fatal house fire at 733 First Street in Nescopeck, Pa, Friday, Aug. The vehicle in that incident matched the description of the one that had plowed through the crowd in Berwick moments earlier. Police say they arrived on the scene and found the woman dead, and arrested the suspected killer. Local photographer Tony Bendele reported that shortly after the mass-casualty incident in Berwick, police were called to the scene of a second car crash in neighboring Nescopeck, where a man was beating a woman with a hammer. In a statement to, Pennsylvania State Police said that the suspected driver, a male who is now in custody, fled the crash scene and, minutes later, murdered a woman in nearby Nescopeck. The crash occurred at around 6:15pm on Saturday outside a restaurant called Intoxicology Department, which was hosting a day-long event to raise money for the families of those killed in a fire earlier this month.
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One death and all of the injuries occurred in the crash at the fundraiser in Berwick, before the driver fled the scene and beat a woman to death in nearby Nescopeck, according to police. Two people are dead and at least 17 were injured in Pennsylvania after police say a man fatally plowed his car into a fundraiser event for the families of 10 people who died in a recent house fire, and then fled the scene and murdered a woman with a hammer.
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