3 Children Rescued, Resuscitated From Temple Hills House Fire

TEMPLE HILLS, MD — Three children were saved from a house fire in Temple Hills Sunday morning, spokesman for Prince George's County Fire and EMS Mark Brady said.

Authorities were alerted of the fire in the 4700 block of Alcon Dr. at about 7 a.m. Sunday. A female caller told authorities that her house was on fire and her three children were trapped on the second floor of the home.

The fire broke out on the first-floor kitchen, leaving the children unable to escape because of thick smoke and high heat in the hallway, Brady told Patch.

Firefighters located two children in one room and an infant in another. The children were brought down through the interior stairwell to the exterior where firefighters initiated immediate rescue breathing on the two older children and CPR on the four-month-old infant.

Brady said an adult male escaped the second floor of the home by jumping out of a window. He was not injured. All eight occupants inside the home survived, Brady said.

Four occupants between the ages of 17 and 4 months old were transported to the hospital suffering from heat and exposure to smoke. They are in serious but stable condition.

"The house is destroyed. My kids' tongues are black; their eyes are black. They are trying to clear out their systems right now," Shannell Agnew, the mother of the children, told ABC7. "I'm just worrying about their well-being. I never been through that, so I'm worried about them."

The Red Cross is assisting the nine residents who were displaced from the home. The cause of the fire is undetermined and fire loss is still being estimated, Brady said.

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