Fire officials say another child started the fire while playing with a lighter. Her 2-year-old daughter, Dashiyah, was found dead on the first floor. 'We were frantic.'įirefighters rescued two of her sons - identified by the family this afternoon as Joseph Austin, 4, and Stacey, Austin, Jr., 9 - but they were pronounced dead at Comer Children's Hospital. 'We woke up and there was fire everywhere,' an inconsolable Sims said outside the charred house. Sims tried to douse the flames with pots and pans full of water, then helped her husband get their 10 children out of the Englewood home. Samantha Sims awoke to the piercing sound of a smoke alarm and the sight of flames coming from her children's bedroom.
