ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Residents of a Pennsylvania city will gather to mourn and remember four of the five children who died when fire swept through a home child care center.
Funerals for 8-year-old La'Myhia Jones, 6-year-old Luther Jones Jr., 4-year-old Ava Jones and 9-month-old Jaydan Augustyniak will take place Saturday at Erie's Bayfront Convention Center, with visitation before a noontime service. All are siblings.
The funeral for 2-year-old Dalvin Pacley will be held Monday.
Fire officials suspect Sunday's blaze was accidental and possibly electrical. Extension cords and other wiring have been sent to experts for examination.
An adult and two adolescent boys were able to escape the fire.
Three of the victims were the children of a volunteer firefighter, Luther Jones. Their mother, Shevona Overton, is also the mother of Jaydan.
Shevona Overton, seated, gets a hug from her aunt Jennifer Overton during a news conference, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, at Second Baptist Church, on E. 26th Street, in Erie, Pa. Shevona Overton lost her four children in a fatal fire a day earlier at a home child care center in Erie. A fifth child also died and at least two others were injured in the fire. (Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP)
Erie Bureau of Fire Inspector Mark Polanski helps investigate a fatal fire at 1248 West 11th St. in Erie, Pa, on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Authorities say an early morning fire in northwestern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of multiple children and sent another person to the hospital. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
Paul Laughlin, 57, places stuffed animals on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 outside a home at 1248 West 11th St. in Erie, Pa., where multiple people died in an early-morning fire. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
Erie Bureau of Police Det. Dave Walker, left, and Matthew Regentin, center, a fire investigator with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives, based in Pittsburgh, are shown Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, with a box of evidence taken from the scene of a fatal fire at a home child care center on W. 11th Street in Erie, Pa. Investigators spent several hours at the site, where five children died and at least two others were injured in the fire the day before. (Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP)
Karina Facchiano, center, is comforted by a friend during a vigil outside a residence, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Erie, Pa. The vigil was in remembrance of five children who died Aug. 11 at a fire at the residence, which served as a daycare facility. One of the children that died was Dalvin Pacley, 2, Facchiano's son. (Jack Hanrahan/Erie Times-News via AP)
