Ronald Rochelle, left and his fiance' Khrystyna McClinton near lived in the same apartment unit where an early-morning fire killed a mother and her 14 year-old daughter Wednesday July 25, 2012. The couple said they tried using fire extinguishers to help fight the blaze. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
Andrea Aguilera bloodied her hands breaking glass while trying to save a mother and her 14 year-old daughter from an early-morning apartment fire in the Miller neighborhood of Gary Wednesday July 25, 2012. Aguilera lives in an adjacent building and rushed to try to help when she saw flames and heard screams. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
Burned out portion of a third-floor apartment in the Miller neighborhood of Gary where an early-morning fire claimed the lives of a mother and her 14 year-old daughter. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
Virginia Smith, center, carries some of her personal belongings with help from her friend Jouhn Coulter, right, outside an apartment building in the Miller neighborhood of Gary where an early-morning fire claimed the lives of a mother and her 14 year-old daughter. Smith lived in the floor above where the fire started and said she was rescued by the Gary Fire Departement using a ladder to get to her window. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
Gary fire department vehicles and personel work near the burned-out facade of an apartment buidling in the Miller neighborhood of Gary. Authorities are investigating the cause of an early-morning fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her 14 yea-old daughter. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
The unit of the Lakeshore Dunes Apartments in the Miller section of Gary, Ind., where a woman and her 14-year-old daughter died early Wednesday, July 25, in a fire. | Andy LaValley~Sun-Times Media
A woman and young girl walk past the burned out facade of an apartment building in the Miller neighborhood of Gary Wednesday July 26, 2012. Authorites were investigating the suspicious fire that claimed the lives of the mother and her 14 year-old daughter. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media
Bernice King, 33, died with her daughter Angel Harris, 14, in Lakeshore Dunes apartment fire early Wednesday morning. | Provided Photo~Sun-Times Media ptmet
GARY — A mother and one of her six children died in a suspicious fire early Wednesday morning in their Lakeshore Dunes apartment. Bernice King, 33, and Angel Harris, 14, died as firefighters fought a blaze that began outside their apartment door on the top … Read More
