5 Dead in Kentucky Blaze: Four Children and Their Father Found Dead in House Fire

Five people are dead due to a fire at a home in Kentucky, four of them being children and the fifth, their father.

The blaze occurred Wednesday morning in southern Pike County beginning at around 2:30 a.m. reported The Associated Press. A relative who lives close to the house said that she woke up to see the house engulfed in a fire.

"There was nothing I could do, I got second-degree burns just getting close to it," said Glema Blair, the children's great aunt to the AP.

The children's mother was taken to the UK Medical center. Blair who lives behind the house said that she ran over and saw the mother, Tammie Tucker and her father trying to get inside the house to locate the children.

Blair said that Tucker lived at the house with Billy Wilfong, her boyfriend of seven years and the children's father. The children were identified by Blair as being Dakota Lee, 5, Tyler Lane, 4, and Cheyenne,2, and Emily, 6 months.

Pike County Emergency Services Coordinator Doug Tacket said to The AP that the team hasn't even started recovery efforts yet.

Doug Tackett, Pike County Emergency Services Coordinator, said hot spots still marked the house as of early Wednesday afternoon.

Another neighbor said the fire has shocked the Jonancy, which is a small community. Evelyn Mullins said to the AP, "It's just such a tragedy,'' Mullins said.

County Judge-Executive spokesman Brandon Roberts said he doesn't remember an incident like this happening in recent history AP, "I can't remember a whole family perishing in a fire in my lifetime," Roberts said. "It's just, 'Oh God.'"