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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Mercer County, PA) A house fire in Mercer County killed a mother and her two children yesterday. According to the Mercer County coroner, forty-eight-year-old Malinda Abrams, her sixteen-year-old daughter and her twelve-year-old son, were pronounced dead around 6 a.m. after a fire occurred at their home in Sandy Lake Township and firefighters found the family inside the home on Walnut Street as they were fighting the flames. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police’s fire marshal’s office. The coroner of Mercer County expressed that the cause and manner of death for all three victims are pending further forensic evaluation and testing and there is not any current evidence to suggest that foul play was involved. A report from CBS affiliate WKBN confirms that there were five people inside the home at the time of the fire. It broke out at about 4 a.m. All of the pets inside the home also died.