A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north of Los Angeles.
Four children and two adults were found dead in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania early Monday morning and authorities were searching for the cause.
An early morning fire swept through a two-story wood frame house in Schenectady on Thursday, killing four people, including three children, authorities said.
Richard Blanco, a 31 year-old company lineman, and colleagues Joshua Kruse, Charles Nunez and Matthew Mullins, rescued the pair from a burning apartment house in Mount Vernon.
Larchmont police captain Thomas Sullivan, Sr., his wife Donna and their teenaged daughters Meaghan and Mairead all died whe flames swept through their home in Carmel.
The fire broke out on Central Street in Plainview just before 6:45 a.m., and heavy flames shot out the windows and caused extensive damage to the house.
The home of Rabbi Chanoch Ashkenazi is also home to his synagogue. His temple has served this tightly knit orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn for nearly 40 years until today.