Nation IN BRIEF : TENNESSEE : Six People Die in House Blaze

A man and five children under the age of 10 were killed by a fire that destroyed a house in South Fulton where three families were spending the night, fire officials said. Two people escaped unharmed but the victims were trapped by intense heat and smoke, said Tommy Smith, fire chief in the small town on the western Tennessee-Kentucky state line. The children’s ages ranged from 3 to 9, Smith said. “They were all related but it was actually three families,” he said. “They had just moved in and had some relatives come over and spend the night with them and we ended up with that many fatalities,” Smith said. He said the wood-frame house was recently remodeled. The cause of the fire had not been determined.