LAS VEGAS– Two adults and two children were found dead in the charred rubble of a house fire after a mother and another child jumped from a third-floor window to escape the flames in a southwest Las Vegas neighborhood, authorities said .
The mother and child were taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas with unspecified injuries as firefighters from several cities battled the flames before dawn Thursday, Clark County Fire Chief John Steinbeck said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Steinbeck said, adding that neighbors told officials they heard an explosion during the fire.
The first firefighters who arrived just after 4 a.m. found “extremely heavy fire coming out of every window” on the second and third floors of the house, Steinbeck told reporters, and crews trying to enter the front door had to retreat because of heat and heat. flames. The roof, third and second floors later collapsed.
The names of the dead and injured were not immediately released.