Family members console each other near where the Clark County Fire Department works a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
The Clark County Fire Department and police work about a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Family members reunite and console each other near where the Clark County Fire Department works a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Family members converse with Metro officers near where the Clark County Fire Department works a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Family members and friends come together down the block as the Clark County Fire Department and police work about a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Clark County Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Warren Whitney talks about a house fire along the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Burn marks and damage are about a house on the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue as the Clark County Fire Department and police continue to work a house fire call there where two small children were killed on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Two children were found dead following a house fire Tuesday morning in east Las Vegas, the Clark County Fire Department said.
About 10:10 a.m., firefighters were called to a home on the 6500 block of Caddington Avenue, near Owens Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. Crews arrived to heavy smoke coming from the house, the fire department said.
The fire was knocked down at about 10:40 a.m.
Inside the home, crews found the infant, about 2 months old, and a toddler, about 2 years old, both dead, Deputy Fire Chief Warren Whitney said. He said a man inside the home at the time of the fire was also hospitalized due to smoke inhalation.
“The gentleman stated the two kids were still in the house,” Whitney said.
On the residential street Tuesday, near a line of yellow police tape, several people had gathered by about noon, visibly distraught.
Whitney said the cause of the blaze is under investigation. It is believed that the fire started in a front room, then spread to a bedroom where the children were located.
“It’s going to be a while as they dig stuff out in their investigation to find an area of origin, that kind of stuff — putting the pieces together,” Whitney said.
A neighbor, Dan Smith, said he was in his home when he heard sirens blaring mid-morning. He looked out to see firefighters and police swarming what he described as a nice, quiet neighborhood.
“There are a lot of kids out there always down there playing,” Smith said.
