Eight people died in a house fire in a Tulsa suburb on Thursday afternoon, as Broken Arrow police and federal agents investigate the Oklahoma fire as a possible homicide.
Hutchins also called the scene"complex" and declined to comment on any search for the suspect.
"Understandably, this is a shock to Broken Arrow. It's a safe city," Hutchins said."And so, we're asking the community to please pray and come together because this is something that we don't experience as a city very often."People look on as Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities.
One witness said that she saw a column of smoke near the house while she was driving with her children. "When I got closer to the house, I saw smoke pouring out from the very top of the house, which looked like maybe the attic," Catelin Powers said. Powers reported that she saw two men and a woman outside the house. A third man appeared to carry an unconscious young adult woman out of the building. The witness then drove away to avoid traumatizing her children.Broken Arrow police and fire department officials investigated the scene of the fire, which killed eight people.Officials did not provide details about who was killed or how the fire was caused, but they did not believe an immediate threat to the public existed.
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