4 children dead in Conyers house fire

Authorities say four children are dead after a fire engulfed a home in Conyers on Tuesday night.
   
According to authorities in Conyers, seven people were in the home when the fire broke out upstairs just after 11 p.m. on Pinedale Circle. They say officers arrived within 30 seconds of the call, and found the front door open and could see flames coming down the stairs. The officers tried to use fire extinguishers but couldn't put out the fire.

Conyers police Major Mike Waters says the mother rushed upstairs and tried to get her five children out of the home, but was only able to save a 6-year-old boy by throwing him out of a second story window. The boy suffered a broken collar bone and transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.

Tragic: A family picture shows Reba Glass and her children. Only Daell Glass Jr. (in yellow) survived the fire

Destroyed: Officials stand outside a home in Conyers, Georgia where four children perished in a house fire

Heartbreak: Their mother tried to save them but could only reach one son, whom she threw from a windowThe mother also jumped out of the window. Authorities say they tried to airlift her to a hospital but bad weather tued the helicopter around. The mother was then transported by ambulance to Grady Hospital, with over 40 percent of her body bued.

Waters says a neighbor tried to help.

"There was one neighbor that tried his best to get in a rear window but the flames were too strong, and there was no way he could get in," said Waters.

Three boys and one girl -- their ages described as 8 months old, 3 years old, 6 years old, and 9 years old -- were killed in the fire. A grandmother at the home was able to escape uninjured.

A woman who lives in the neighborhood says the tragedy is hitting the community hard, and that everyone is pulling for the family.

"One of my grandkids went to school with two of the kids, and my prayers just go out to the family. It's just a loss. We're just going to try to stick with the family," said neighbor Trena Clark.

It is not known what sparked the fire.

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