Child, two adults killed in kittanning, pa, homemade fire

Megan Guza

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

(Tns)

February 24 – Two adults and a small child died in a massive homemade fire in Kittanning, while two young boys and the family living on the other side of the duplex escaped.

The Crown of Armstrong County identified adults like Kayla Whittaker, her 3 -year -old son, Ryland Whittaker and Jason C. Blystone Jr., 26, 26 years old

The neighbors said that two of Mrs. Whittaker’s children, between the ages of 9 and 5, left the house and alerted the neighbors about the fire.

The “little superhero”, called a neighbor.

The woman, who lives two doors down in duplex and asked not to be identified by name, said she woke up before dawn at one of her neighbors shouting. She said she went out to a cloud of smoke and the two boys in the street. The children already called 911.

She said that the house on North Grant Avenue was quickly included and pulled the two children in their own home. They colored and played with Legos, she said, and she tried to distract two doors down.

“Let them be children because I know starting the moment they left here from childhood,” she said.

He also had the hard task of calling the father of the boys, who said he was outside the city, to tell him that the house was on fire.

“I told him that the boys are here, they are safe, they ate breakfast and they were children for several hours before the adult life had to enter,” she said.

She said that the boys once asked about their toys or xbox – just when they could go home and when their mother came to take them.

“That house was so fast. 9 and 5, “she said.

She said she thinks the boys saved their neighbors in duplex.

Janet Kasprack is one of those duplex neighbors. She told the Post-Gazette Kdka-TV news partner that she woke up at one of the boys knocking on the door. She said the boy told him that his steps were on fire. Mrs. Kasprak said what started like a little fire on the “widespread” steps.

Mrs. Kasprak told the television station that she ran inside to help her husband, who uses a wheelchair in the house.

“I took him to the porch and (the police and the paramedics) I only grabbed his wheelchair and put it on a tar,” she said. – And then he pulled out the wheelchair from the porch.

Scott Kline, the chief of Kittannning Hose Company 6, told KDKA, the first one started behind a duplex part and spread from there. He said two firefighters were injured when they fell on the second floor. They were treated at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.

“It is a deep tragedy, especially for a small community,” said the boss. “There are times when you pass by and see that there are children playing on the street. It is probably only about six houses in my house.”