A fire that killed two Maryland sisters while they were on vacation is under investigation

BALTIMORE — A summer time trip house within the Hamptons is on the middle of a Potomac household’s heartache and the main focus of a fireplace investigation.

That’s as a result of two Marylander sisters died early Wednesday morning in a home hearth in Suffolk County, New York, police stated.

Jillian and Lindsay Wiener, from Potomac, Maryland, have been on trip within the Lengthy Island city of Noyack with their brother Zachary, mom, Alisa, and father, Lewis, in keeping with the Southampton Police Division.

About 3:35 a.m., city authorities acquired a name a couple of hearth on the house on Spring Lane. Fireplace departments from 5 totally different cities responded to the blaze.

Lewis described waking up in his first-floor room to the noise of glass shattering and alerted the household to get out of the home. 

Each Alisa and Lewis escaped. Once they realized the kids had not gotten out, Lewis tried to re-enter the home however flames from a fireplace prevented him from doing so.

Zachary escaped by leaping out of a second-story window, however 21-year-old Jillian and 19-year-old Lindsay could not escape the fast-moving hearth. 

Fireplace personnel discovered the women inside the house. They have been then taken to SUNY Southampton Hospital, the place they died from their accidents, police stated.

Jillian was headed to her senior yr on the College of Michigan and Lindsay was set to return to Tulane College as a sophomore. 

“It is so scary. I can not even think about,” one girl in New York stated. “You come right here to have a superb time to not–you’ll by no means take into consideration one thing like that.”

Investigators try to find out the reason for the hearth.