The 36 year old mother and five other kids survived this fire [View all]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/08/four-siblings-die-house-fire
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A teenager and three of his young siblings have died after a house fire in Lancashire on Saturday night. A joint forensic investigation by police and the fire service is being carried out in an effort to try to establish the cause.

The four victims were named by their grandfather as Reece Smith, 19, four-year-old twins Holly and Ella, and two-year-old Jordan.

They were treated at the scene by paramedics after being rescued from a bungalow in the Fylde coast village of Freckleton, but they were pronounced dead later at Preston Royal Infirmary.

Firefighters led their mother, Michelle Smith, 36, out of the house and it is thought she escaped injury. Her five other children survived.
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May be a bad time to ask but how does a 36 year old have nine children in these times?