Girl, 14, Dies in Phoenix Fire Police Say Could Have Been Set Intentionally

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A Sunday-morning fire at an apartment building in Phoenix has killed a 14-year-old girl and left her mother and three siblings in critical condition, the Associated Press reports.

Firefighters were dealing with an early-morning blaze in a second-floor unit of a west Phoenix apartment building when five people were found unconscious.

"What [one firefighter] found was five family members—a 33-year-old mother and her four children—inside of [a] bedroom. All of them were unconscious," Officer James Holmes, a Phoenix Police Department spokesman, told the AP.

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Authorities said that the fire could have been deliberately set and might have been related to domestic violence. Holmes told the AP that a person of interest had been detained.

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Holmes said the woman and a 10-year-old were hospitalized in critical condition. The youngest children, a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old, were in extremely critical but stable condition.

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The fire displaced nearly 30 residents of the building. One resident told the AP that she had never seen any violence between the mother and a man who the resident said was the woman's live-in boyfriend.

Read more at the Associated Press.