INDEPENDENCE — Five people, including four children, died in a Friday morning house fire.
Five others, three children and two adults, also suffered life-threatening injuries in the fire that erupted shortly before sunrise at 201 S. Earl Street.
Two of the four children who were killed were students in the Independence school district, USD 446 Superintendent of Schools Jason McAfee said.
Family members identified those who died as Bane, Case, Ahlaya and Renesmae Landsaw-Davis, along with their grandmother, Johanna Landsaw-Davis.
The family said the…
