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Mobile home fire kills 4 in Phoenix suburb

Victims are 11-year-old boy, 7-year-old girl along with 2 stepbrothers, ages 38 and 32

The Associated Press

APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — A fire department official says two adults and two children were killed in a trailer house fire in the far southeast Phoenix suburb of Apache Junction.

The fire started around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. The cause is under investigation.

A fire official tells The Arizona Republic ( http://bit.ly/yCl5aO) the victims are an 11-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl along with two stepbrothers, ages 38 and 32.

Apache Junction Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Farber tells The Associated Press the firefighters responded to a call of an explosion and found the mobile home in flames.