2 bodies found in rubble of burned home in South Fulton; woman, child still missing

SOUTH FULTON, Ga — Two family members are dead and five more are hospitalized after a fire broke out at a large home in the City of South Fulton early Wednesday morning.

A mother and a child remain missing.

Firefighters confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that two bodies were discovered in the rubble Wednesday. Those victims have not been identified, but officials confirmed that they are both adults. Crews planned to search until dark for the missing mother and child and resume in the morning.

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The fire occurred on the 7000 block of Oswego Trail Road. Lt. Eric Jackson said his department received a 911 call around 4:42 a.m. When crews arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames.

Jackson said South Fulton police arrived on scene before fire crews did, and the officers tried to enter the home, but the flames were too intense.

The department told Channel 2 that five people have been transported to the hospital. Two of them were taken by a private car.

Channel 2′s Tom Regan talked to a man who lived at the home and said he desperately tried to get his family out, but wasn’t able to reach them because the flames were just too intense.

Jerome Harris said that when he woke up to the sound of glass breaking, the fire was already well underway on the second floor of the home.

“All I can tell you is, with those flames, I was trying to get people out of there, my family out of there,” Harris said.

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Harris said he tried desperately to get to the second floor bedrooms to warn his loved ones.

“I get to the top of the steps, that was as far as I could get, because the flames were going through the roof,” Harris said.

Firefighter Lt. Eric Jackson said that by the time South Fulton Fire and Rescue got to the home, there were flames in nearly every door and window.

Jackson said five people who were able to get out of the house were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where they are stable.

“There are some individuals who didn’t make it out of the house,” Jackson said.

Neighbor Phillip Horton said the whole situation is sad because so many people lived at the house.

Firefighters have not identified the four people who are missing, though a family member said that at least one of the victims was a child.

“Keep us in your prayers, that’s all you can do,” Harris said.

Neighbors describe moment they saw South Fulton house engulfed in flames

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