Burlington house fire leaves 3 children, 2 adults in critical condition

Two adults and three kids are in life-threatening condition after a house fire broke out in Burlington early Saturday morning. Police say crews got on scene and immediately doused the fire just before 7 a.m. Officials say three of the victims were found with vital signs absent. Halton Police said a sixth person was taken to hospital in non-life-threatening condition. This resident says that person was a neighbor running inside to try to help. Came out and saw my next door neighbor running into That burning building to rescue the children that were inside. Yeah, she was in bed, she was sleeping, so she just threw a robe on and ran outside and... Ran into a burning building with nothing but a robe on. Neighbours say the family who lived in the house were a mother, father and their three children, all three of them boys under the age of 12. Those neighbours sharing their concern for the family this morning. They moved, I believe, six months ago, maybe longer, but not even a year. And sometimes my granddaughter played together with their son on the playground. Probably one of the most Traumatizing things I've ever seen. Kids were lovely, really good, nice kids. I was like shocked because I mean we get police here all the time a lot but it's not like this big and I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't. The Ontario Fire Marshal is now taking over the investigation. He says the next steps are for officers to go inside and determine what the source of the fire was as well as if there were any working fire alarms inside at the time. This is a very, very tragic reminder of having working smoke alarms in your home and something that I find very, very important is having a strategy plan, an exit strategy plan, safety plan in place with your family and putting it to the test. I know that we do talk about it, but people don't realize how important that is because seconds could save your life. As of Saturday afternoon, the victims are still in critical condition. Mercedes Gaston Bidet, CBC News, Burlington.