House Fire Claims 5-Year-Old Boy

The Repository / Edd Prichard Neighbors stood quietly in a backyard watching as firefighters worked on a roof at 820 Fulton Rd. NW.
They waited for the inevitable.
Oh my God! several said in hushed tones as a blanket holding a child was passed through a window to a waiting firefighter, who then passed the blanket to another on a ladder. The blanket wrapped the body of Azariah Adkins, 5, who died Monday in a fire that raged through his familys home. The boys father, Gerald Adkins, escaped the fire, bringing out two daughters, Shekiah, 10, and Shekahana, 8.
But Gerald couldnt get back into the house to reach his son.
The boy was found lying in a second-floor hallway, outside his bedroom door, Division Chief John Whitlatch said. Witnesses said they saw the boy near a second-floor window after the fire started.
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