Rescue Workers Had ‘No Chance’ to Save Children
Twin 3-year-olds perished in an early morning Nov. 12 blaze in Moon Lake.
A Pasco County Sheriff’s deputy was one of the first on the scene at a fatal fire in Moon Lake this morning. When he arrived, a woman was standing outside the fully engulfed home at 10637 Wabayo St. saying there were babies inside. She was “hysterical,” said Sheriff Chris Nocco. The deputy, however, had “no chance at all to go in there,” Nocco said. Pasco County Fire Rescue Chief Robert Davidson agreed. “Our crews did attempt to (perform) a rescue,” he said, adding that the blaze was too involved to enable entry into the mobile home. Two 3-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, neighbors say, died in the fire, Nocco confirmed. “It’s an absolute tragedy,” he said. “You can never say the right words.” Receive updates to this story and other …
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