Five children have been killed in a house fire in the town of Edna, officials confirm to ABC-13.The fire broke out around 5am Tuesday morning in the 300 block of Rowlett. Edna is located about an hour and a half southwest of Houston of Highway 59.When firefighters arrived, they found a 60-70 foot long trailer home fully engulfed in flames. A 32-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were both outside of the home. The woman was rushed to Victoria's Citizens hospital with a severe cut. The man was not injured.The Fire Marshal says there are five dead children inside the trailer. Family identifies the victims as 15-year-old Noah Ortiz, 13-year-old Nicholas Ortiz, Julian Ortiz, 6-year-old Ariana Hernandez and 5-year-old Liliana Hernandez.A sixth child did survive the fire. Relatives identify him as Johnny Hernandez, III. His father, Johnny Hernandez, Jr. and mother, Annabel Ortiz were also able to get out alive. Relatives say she was severely injured trying to get the children out of the home.More than 100 people poured onto the street in front of the family's burnt home for a vigil on Tuesday night."Us being a small community that we are, it has just devastated everybody," said Marcy Davis of the tragedy.Neighbors, friends and relatives were among those attending the vigil."I'm a mom," said Mandy Vickery. "I can't imagine. To me, no parent should bury their children."Firefighters say it appears the blaze started in the kitchen area, but they do not have an exact cause.Between sobs, relative Virginia Flores appealed to those around her. "Please everyone, just please pray for the family."A GoFundMe site has been set up for the family. If you'd like to contribute, here is the link ||||| Family identifies the victims as 15 year old Noah Ortiz, 13 Year old Julian Ortiz, 9 year old Nicholas Ortiz, 6 year old Arianna Hernandez, and 5 year old Lilianna Hernandez. The youngest boy in this photo taken a few weeks ago is Johnny Hernandez the Third. He survived the fire. (Photo: Family photo) 
 
 EDNA, Texas -- Five children died when their family's mobile home caught fire in Jackson County early Tuesday, authorities said. 
 
 "How terrible a tragedy. Off the scale sad. Off the scale of everything," said Cindy Baker, a neighbor. 
 
 The fire broke out shortly after 5 a.m. in the 300 block of Rowlett in Edna, a small town about 100 miles southwest of Houston. 
 
 Eight family members were in the home at the time, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 Family members identified the victims as 15-year-old Noah Ortiz, 13-year-old Julian Ortiz, 9-year-old Nicholas Ortiz, 6-year-old Arianna Hernandez, and 5-year-old Lilianna Hernandez. 
 
 "I just seen them the other day jumping on the trampoline at their Grandma's house," said Felicia Guerra, a family friend. "I don't know. I can't really talk. It is a shock to everyone. I don't know what to say." 
 
 The family's youngest child, a 4-year-old named Johnny, survived the blaze along with two parents. 
 
 Sheriff AJ Louderback said when emergency personnel arrived, the 32-year-old mom and 30-year-old dad told firefighters that five children were inside the home, which was already engulfed in flames. 
 
 "The bystanders were saying there was possibly five kids inside the structure," said Captain Nick Strauss with the Edna Fire Department. "Shortly after we made entry, the roof started collapsing and the floor started becoming very unsecure." 
 
 Witnesses at the scene told KHOU 11 News the oldest boy, a varsity high school football player, may have died going back into the burning home to try and save his young sisters. 
 
 
 
 "He has his two sisters, trying to get them out and did not make it out the door with them," said Karen Fojtik, a family friend. 
 
 The State Fire Marshal's Office is on the scene investigating. A cause for the fire has not been determined. Family friends believe it was electrical. 
 
 "They had had some electrical issues," said Fojtik. "Probably about six or seven months ago, with their breaker box and stuff." 
 
 The family has set up a gofundme account to help pay for funeral expenses. 
 
 Slideshow: Tragic mobile home fire in Edna 
 
 Edna, Texas is about 100 miles southwest of Houston (Photo: MapBox / KHOU) 
 
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 Noah Ortiz, 15, top left; Julian Ortiz, 13; Nicholas Ortiz, 9; Arianna Hernandez, 6, bottom left; and Lilianna Hernandez, 5, died Nov. 25, 2014, when their family's mobile home caught fire. Johnny Hernandez III, 4, bottom right, survived. (Photo: Courtesy of Hernandez and Ortiz families) 
 
 EDNA, Texas — Five children are dead after a mobile home caught fire here Tuesday, authorities said. 
 
 Eight people were in the home when it erupted in flames at about 5 a.m. CT and the roof collapsed, according to the Jackson County Sheriff A.J. Louderback. Three, including a father, mother and at least one child, were able to escape. 
 
 A family member identified the father as Johnny Hernandez Jr., 30. Hernandez was able to save the mother, Annabel Ortiz, 32, and their 4-year-old, Johnny Hernandez III, also known as "3J." 
 
 Two of the survivors were treated at the scene about 100 miles southwest of Houston, and Ortiz was taken to an area hospital, authorities said. 
 
 Among those dead is Noah Ortiz, 15, a sophomore at Edna High School and a football player who helped lead his team Friday to the area championship. Witnesses said Noah may have died going back into the home to try to save his siblings — Julian Ortiz, 13; Nicholas Ortiz, 9; Arianna Hernandez, 6; and Lilianna Hernandez, 5, who also perished. 
 
 "The timing of this incident is unbelievable, especially with Thanksgiving being this week," Superintendent Robert O'Connor of the Edna Independent School District told the Jackson County (Texas) Herald-Tribune here. The school in this town of about 5,700 residents has around 400 students. 
 
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 The school canceled Tuesday night's basketball games so students can mourn, he said. Grief counselors also will be available at the high school. 
 
 The Texas State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating. A cause for the fire has not been determined. 
 
 A fire Monday morning in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas, that killed three adults apparently started near a central heating unit, according to Pasadena Fire Marshal David Brannon. 
 
 The woman and her adult children in their 50s, whose names were not immediately released, lived among so much clutter that it prevented their escape from the one-story wood-frame home, he said, calling them hoarders who had been working with code-enforcement officials to clean up their property. 
 
 "The mobility problems that they had were trying to evacuate the house because of all of the obstructions that were in the way. We even had challenges getting in there to fight the fire," Brannon said. 
 
 The body of the mother in her 70s was in a bathroom, he said. Her son was found dead in a hallway. Her daughter's body was in a back bedroom of the house that did not have smoke detectors. 
 
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 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1vKSsDr ||||| WASHINGTON Court House, Ohio — The three Harris boys had had a big day — several Christmas celebrations at a couple of different places with lots of relatives and friends. 
 
 But theirs is a close-knit bunch, Fayette County Sheriff Vernon Stanforth said. And 14-year-old Kenyon Harris, his 11-year-old brother, Broderick, and Braylon, 9, didn’t want their grandma to be alone on Christmas night. 
 
 So they spent Thursday night at her house, just two doors down from their own. 
 
 At about 4 a.m. yesterday, the ranch at 5602 Inskeep Rd. erupted in flames that could be seen for miles. All three boys died, apparently trying to make their way out. 
 
 About seven hours after the blaze, authorities recovered their bodies behind the body of their paternal grandmother, 60-year-old Terry Harris, who was near the front door, Stanforth said. 
 
 Dozens of friends and relatives gathered on Friday at the home of parents Traci and Ricky Harris as fire inspectors shoveled through still-smoldering piles of rubble and ash, all that was left of Ricky’s mother’s house after fire swiftly destroyed the home. 
 
 The family told Stanforth that they were grieving too badly to talk to reporters just yet. But he knows the Harrises — he had been Traci and Ricky’s D.A.R.E. instructor when they were in elementary school — and spoke on their behalf. 
 
 “This family is just lost,” Stanforth said. “We’re not talking about material things; we’re talking about three babies.” 
 
 Terry Harris had doted on her grandchildren, the sheriff added. 
 
 “I don’t know that a family ever recovers from something like this,” he said. “I don’t think they ever could.” 
 
 The cause of the fire is unknown. Investigators with the state fire marshal’s office picked through the debris, checking charred electrical cords and studying burn patterns to try to sort it all out. 
 
 The house collapsed into the crawl space, and a little bit of the frame is all that still stands. There was little recognizable left in the rubble: a twisted and bent metal bed frame, a few slips of fabric, some shattered window frames. 
 
 Someone had salvaged a few things and moved them away from the damage, setting them in the grass along the property’s chain-link fence: a glass relish plate and a serving dish; a couple of plates and a pile of charred and waterlogged family photos spotted with soot. 
 
 Stanforth said that it could be weeks before investigators determine a cause, if then. Authorities found no evidence of smoke detectors. 
 
 The first 911 call came in at 4:12 a.m. from a woman who lives in a house high up on a hill just north of the Harrises’ two places. She had a clear view of what was already an inferno by the time her husband spotted it when he got up in the night. 
 
 “Oh, my,” she told a dispatcher. “It’s just about burnt completely down.” 
 
 Another call came in two minutes later from a woman on another road just to the south, probably a half-mile away. She told the dispatcher that the flames were shooting into the night sky and that she was worried because she hadn’t yet heard any sirens or seen any emergency lights: “You may be too late.” 
 
 Stanforth said the fire could have been smoldering for hours. His first deputy arrived about three minutes after the first 911 call and the house had partially collapsed. 
 
 He theorized that once the fire broke free in the small ranch house, the heat would likely have blown out the windows, and that would have fed the flames. 
 
 “That’s why we saw such a fire ball and it went so quickly,” he said. 
 
 Before they went to Grandma Harris’ house on Thursday night, the boys had spent part of Christmas with their maternal grandmother, Ronda Shiltz. She lives nearby, too, and said that as soon as the emergency crews rushed down Inskeep Road, the family quickly congregated to await what they hoped would be good news. They were helpless to do anything because the flames and heat were too much for anyone. 
 
 Shiltz said the family dog had escaped, so she ran through the adjacent farmland even as the fire raged, hoping that the kids had maybe escaped and run for help. 
 
 “I walked the fields, hoping the babies got out,” she said. Too distraught to say much, she said only that the boys were talented and sweet and kind and that nothing will ever be the same. 
 
 Kenyon was a basketball standout who had dreams of playing in the NBA one day. 
 
 Broderick shined on the wrestling mat. He was to compete in a post-holiday tournament in Michigan today, Shiltz said. 
 
 Braylon had a health issue, so sports weren’t necessarily his thing. But that never stopped him from trying everything he wanted to and keeping up with his brothers. 
 
 The boys, Shiltz said, were tight. 
 
 As the family gathered to grieve on Friday, so, too, did teachers, coaches, classmates, teammates and friends. The doors at the middle-school/high-school complex for Washington Court House City Schools were opened so that anyone could stop by. 
 
 And they came: teachers with wads of tissues in their hands, lanky basketball players in their Blue Lion sweatshirts and elementary-school boys holding onto their mothers’ hands. 
 
 Superintendent Matthew McCorkle said the Harris boys always were respectful, and they were well-loved. 
 
 “They were good kids. Sweet and cute,” he said. “All we can do as a community is come together and help this family any way we can.” 
 
 Hospice of Fayette County was at the school to help. 
 
 “The kids are in shock. This news was like a hit from a two-by-four,” said Keith Clary, the hospice chaplain. “The kids don’t yet understand.” 
 
 The community held a vigil Friday night at a local church. The Rev. John Pfeifer said everyone is searching for answers and that now the best thing to do is pray for comfort, peace and for healing of those left behind. 
 
 “We have to have hope,” he said. “Sometimes that is all that is left.” 
 
 Donations to help the Harris family can be made at any branch of Security National Bank or sent to the bank at 2 S. Main St., Jeffersonville, Ohio 43218 
 
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– A tight Texas community grieved last night during a vigil for five children who perished in a house fire yesterday morning. Officials confirmed to ABC-13 that they found a trailer home blazing around 5am in Edna, located about 90 minutes outside of Houston, with a 32-year-old mother and 30-year-old father outside the trailer. According to USA Today, dad Johnny Hernandez Jr. managed to pull out Annabel Ortiz—her relatives say she suffered a severe cut trying to save the kids, while Hernandez wasn't injured—and their 4-year-old son, Johnny Hernandez III. But Noah Ortiz, 15; Julian Ortiz, 13; Nicholas Ortiz, 9; Arianna (spelled Ariana in some media) Hernandez, 6; and Lilianna (Liliana) Hernandez, 5, all died in the fire, devastating the town of about 5,700. While the cause hasn't yet been determined, firefighters believe it started in the kitchen. A family friend tells KHOU that the family had "some electrical issues" several months ago "with their breaker box and stuff." Witnesses tell the station that Noah, a varsity football player, may have headed back into the flames to try to save the younger children. A GoFundMe page has already raised more than $17,000 for the family; more than 100 people attended last night's candlelight vigil to remember the victims. "Us being a small community that we are, it has just devastated everybody," one resident tells ABC-13, while another adds, "I can't imagine. To me, no parent should bury their children." (These teens cut class—and saved an elderly woman from a house fire.)