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(GARY, Ind.) Three young children were found dead after an apartment fire in Gary, Indiana, late Friday, officials said.
Crews responded at 11:26 p.m. to the blaze at a unit of the Oak Knoll Renaissance apartment complex in the 4400 block of West 23rd Court, according to the Gary Fire Department.
A woman jumped from a second-story window to escape the flames and heavy smoke, fire officials said.
Once the fire was brought under control nearly an hour later, firefighters found two of her children dead in separate beds on the second floor, and a third child on a staircase, fire officials said. They were thought to be younger than 7.
The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
