"Accidents can happen, I know they can, but how can you think of anything like this happening to you?" says William Glover. In the early hours of Sunday morning, a fire took the lives of five of Glover's family members: his brother Charles and Charles' four grandchildren, 13-year-old Nolan Vender, 11-year-old Davonte Brockman, 2-year-old Mario Johnson and 13 month-old Mariyana Johnson. "They were cute kids, beautiful kids," Glover says, "it's too bad it had to happen, you never know what would've happened with them if they would've lived."

Neighbors heard the commotion and ran to help. "It was a sad scene, a very sad scene," says Paul Lampert, a neighbor who helped fire fighters pull Charles and Mariyana from the house Sunday, "I didn't feel a pulse on the child, it had black stuff coming from the nose, the body was very hot, but it hadn't been burned, the smoke's what killed everybody, before the fire did." The bodies of the 3 young boys weren't found until nearly 24 hours after the blaze destroyed the house at 1205 New Jersey in Lawrence. Officials say two of them were found in second floor bedrooms, one of them in a downstairs bedroom.

"Of all places for it to happen, it has to be his house, one of the nicest people," says Aerial Curtisberry, a classmate of one of the victims. Now that the smoke's cleared, schoolmates started a makeshift memorial at the scene. "Everybody's just been sad and crying all day," says Gaia Morgan, another classmate. Learlean, Charles' wife, and grandmother to the children, is the only survivor. "She's just like, 'I couldn't save them, I couldn't save them,'" says Glover, "she lost everything, she's not doing good."

Fire officials say Learlean is recovering in an area hospital. Investigators say now the focus is determining what caused the fatal fire, something they say could take weeks.