Officials said the fire broke out in a private home rented for the Marist College students near the campus early Saturday, killing three people.
Been identified victims and two students in Marist in the past 20 and a boy, who was a student at the school. Not published their names. Survived four other people in the house without serious injuries.
Marist College basketball games postponed two "out of respect for students affected by this tragedy," said Deborah DiCaprio, Marist Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs, said in a statement Saturday.
The city's police chief said Thomas Morrow, has been renting a house off-campus street in Fairview six students from Marist.
Mauro said at the time was called the first shot in 911 by the passers-by about 1:30 pm, seven people were in the house - four citizens and three guests from the males.
The police chief said that the group went to bed an hour before shooting to the authorities. "There was not a problem they were aware of the house when I went to bed," said he, in his comments based on interviews with four survivors.
He said that at least two people jumped from the window to safety after realizing that the fire swept through the house.
Said Chris Maeder, Fairview commander of the fire, one of the few agencies that responded to the first firefighters to respond to an emergency call tried to enter the house, but was forced back from the heat and flames, call for emergency situations.
One of the victims on the second floor of the house, and one was down and was third in the "collapsed ruins of a large," said chief of police. The four survivors were transported to the hospital, where he was treated and released.
Who were treated for minor smoke inhalation and other minor injuries, and they were able to question the police.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. He said he believed that Maeder fire started in the back of the first floor.
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