4 children, 5 people total killed in Porterville house fire, officials say

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Five people, including 4 children, are dormant pursuing a location occurrence successful Porterville.

The occurrence happened conscionable aft 11 p.m. Sunday astatine a location successful the country of S. Indiana Street.

Crews arrived astatine the location and recovered flames, rapidly starting hunt and rescue operations.

Despite efforts to prevention everyone, each 5 radical wrong the location died.

"This is simply a devastating nonaccomplishment for the household and for our community," said Fire Chief Bryan Cogburn.

The origin of the occurrence remains nether investigation.

No firefighters were injured.

The identities of the 5 radical person not been released.