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2-YEAR-OLD AND 5-YEAR-OLD PERISH IN HOUSE FIRES SUNDAY

We reported last night (Sun) that a five year old child had died in a house fire in the Westel Community of Cumberland County.  Today we learned that a two year old child also died Sunday morning in a house fire in Blount County. 

In the Cumberland county fire multiple agencies responded to a home at 2074 Fall Creek Road and were told a child was still inside the home.

The child’s mother, Andrea Cox, made it out of the house but her child did not.

In Blount county a 2-year-old died in a mobile home fire on White’s Mill Road around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office.

According to officials with BCSO, there was a woman and other children in the home when the fire broke out, and three people were taken to the hospital. The other two who were hospitalized had non-life-threatening injuries, BCSO said.