Hearts ache in Gloverville for 2 kids who died in house fire
GLOVERVILLE, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - Neighbors are left shocked after two children were killed in a home fire across from Gloverville Park on Monday.
The Aiken County Coroner’s Office said the fire was reported at approximately 12:50 a.m. at a home on the 200 block of Pine Street.
Four children and their mother were transported to Aiken Regional Medical Centers and Doctors Hospital, said Coroner Darryl Ables.
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Serahya Jordan, 6, was pronounced dead at 1:57 a.m. and her sister, 8-year-old Deandolyn Jordan, was pronounced dead at 2 a.m., according to Ables.
A third sibling was transported to Doctors Hospital in critical condition, Ables says. The mother and fourth sibling were transported to Aiken Regional Medical Centers with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Not much remains of the brick home on Pine Street after it went up in flames Monday morning.
Neighbors said they assisted fire crews in trying to remove the children from the home.
“I busted the front door down and the little boy, I got the little boy out. And then I tried, I got on the ground, turned my phone, kept a light on my phone, and tried to crawl on the ground, but I couldn’t make it no farther than in the living room,” said Clayton Abbey, a Pine Street neighbor.
“I heard the woman screaming for help. So, I come out the back door and walk around the side of the trailer. And I told my mama, I said, ‘The house behind us is on fire. Call 911,’” Abbey said.
When Heather Hall reached her front door, she said, “All I saw was the house. It was in flames. And I heard her screaming, and that’s when I ran over there.”
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But Serahya and Deandolyn didn’t make it out.
“They done the best they could. It took them a while to find the girls, like I said, because when we were trying to get into the house, to the windows or whatever, we could hear the kids crying for their mom, and you’d hear them fading, the cry fades away,” said Hall.
Now their front yard, once filled with laughter, sits still.
“You never know when something like that’s going to hit close to home to you. And for me, across the street, seeing them every day, you know, going to school, just playing around, locking their mama out of the house and locking her out of the car and sitting in the window laughing,” said Hall.
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Autopsies will be performed in Newberry to determine the cause of death. The coroner’s office along with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are continuing the investigation.
The children’s deaths mark the third fatal fire in our area in the past week.
Over the weekend, the Orangeburg County Coroner’s Office says a 77-year-old man has died after a house fire on Saturday.
The coroner’s office says Hubert Adams died in the fire.
The Orangeburg County Fire Department says at 4:13 a.m., the Orangeburg County Communications Center received a 911 call for a reported house fire on Five Chop Road.
Also last week, a 73-year-old woman was identified after a house fire in Jackson last Sunday.
According to the Aiken County Coroner’s Office, 73-year-old Lois Miller’s death was due to smoke inhalation and thermal burns.
Deputies responded to the home in the 100 block of Hidden Springs Road.
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