{"id":45972,"date":"2025-08-11T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45972"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:53:12","slug":"4-kids-2-adults-dead-after-a-house-fire-in-southern-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45972","title":{"rendered":"4 kids, 2 adults dead after a house fire in southern Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Six people are dead after a house fire broke out in Waldorf, Maryland, early Sunday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Around 8:40 a.m., the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and several surrounding departments responded to a report of a dwelling fire with entrapment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The victims were two adults and four children, according to officials. There were nine residents who lived at the house; one adult escaped and two others were not home at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The origin of the fire remains under investigation, but there was no evidence of a criminal act, the Maryland State Fire Marshal said in a post on X.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/fire-assisted-living-facility-destined-kill-50-people\/story?id=123800508\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;In Charles County, we do have fires every now and then, but with the loss of life, that this is &#8230; this is pretty devastating,&#8221; said Bill Smith, Charles County Volunteer Fire and EMS public information officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/4-kids-2-adults-dead-after-house-fire\/story?id=124530267\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people are dead after a house fire broke out in Waldorf, Maryland, early Sunday morning, officials said. Around 8:40 a.m., the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and several surrounding departments responded to a report of a dwelling fire with entrapment. The victims were two adults and four children, according to officials. There were nine residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[3773,2210,1354],"class_list":["post-45972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-adults","tag-dead","tag-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45974,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions\/45974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}